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LECLAIR Sonatas for 2 Violins

Two violinists playing mid-18th-century French music without continuo? Leclair published two sets 17 years apart, of which this, the second,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2015

JENKINS Fantasies a 4

I cannot recall quite so targeted a selection of John Jenkins’s viol music: previous recitals by Phantasm, Fretwork and Jérôme...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2015

FRANCK; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas

Occupying the central place in the canon of Romantic violin repertoire as it does, Franck’s Violin Sonata is programmed in...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015

Andreas Ottensamer: Brahms, the Hungarian Connection

This album explores Brahms’s lifelong fascination with Hungarian idioms. The programme, following the Quintet, comprises a series of arrangements by...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015

BORGSTRØM Works for Violin and Piano

Like other Norwegian Romantics with ears open to modern trends – Grieg and Ibsen come immediately to mind – Hjalmar...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Op1/2; Op70/1

Personal projection at the highest level predominates in Op 70 No 1. From the fortissimo up-rush, Allegro vivace e con...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015

Vassily Sapellnikoff ; Xaver Scharwenka: ‘The Complete Recordings’

Sapellnikoff’s Tchaikovsky Concerto has appeared on CD before (notably Pearl GEMMCD9163) but not his complete extant recordings (the sides he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

Mahan Esfahani: Time Present and Time Past

The fusion of old and new styles characterising harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani’s DG debut unfolds with a sense of continuity and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

Jiang Yi Lin: Masques

The concept of masks both real and abstract purportedly unifies the present recital’s diverse offerings; but the disc also adds...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

XENAKIS Pléïades. Rebonds

The acclaimed percussion virtuoso Kuniko goes it alone, so to speak, in an impressive multitracked performance of Xenakis’s four-movement, 40-minute...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

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