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CHOPIN Waltzes and Mazurkas

Modern pianists who try to imitate the great Romantic keyboard giants often wind up sounding like caricatures of the real...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2015

DEBUSSY Suite Bergamasque. Pour le Piano

Sarah Beth Briggs sandwiches Chopin between Debussy, an appropriate setting when you consider Debussy’s love of Chopin. Not only did...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015

BRITTEN 3 Cello Suites

As with the three string quartets, it is an interesting exercise to listen to all three of Britten’s cello suites...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2015

BARTOLOTTI Music for a Queen

The Italian composer Angelo Michele Bartolotti, who died sometime after 1668 and who was closely associated with the court of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2015

JS BACH Italian Concerto BWV 971

Jean Rondeau’s programme largely consists of Bach works for other instruments, transcribed for harpsichord by the composer and others. Rondeau...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2015

YSAŸE Sonatas for Solo Violin JS BACH Sonata BWV1001

The overt references to the Bach unaccompanied works for violin in Eugène Ysaÿe’s Solo Sonatas mean that the pairing of...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2015

PROKOFIEV Visions Fugitives CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3

In Anna Gourari’s hands, the quirky, caustic, cameo-like and seemingly spontaneous qualities of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives become monumental, aloof and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2015

Hana Blažíková: Vienna 1709

Ten arias by three Italian composers (and the Austrian Fux), all of whom were active in Vienna during the first...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015

WEINBERG Chamber Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Mieczysπaw Weinberg’s time would certainly seem to be now. Advocacy plays a big part in that, of course, and recent...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2015

STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. Capriccio. Movements

Stravinsky was a more than capable pianist, having been given rigorous training by a distinguished teacher, Leokadia Kashperova, who in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2015

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