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MEDTNER Sonata Romantica RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 2

Steven Osborne is on a bit of a Russian odyssey at the moment. Now it’s the turn of two great...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014

LOCATELLI 24 Caprices for Solo Violin

Locatelli composed L’arte del violino in the mid-1720s, soon after Bach completed his solo Sonatas and Partitas and nearly 80...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 30 - 32 SCRIABIN Etude

For her Decca solo debut, the Italian pianist Maria Perrotta rather boldly offers a live concert recording of Beethoven’s last...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2014

JS BACH The Art of Fugue

How would Bach react to presenting his entire Art of Fugue in one sitting, with the final fugue incomplete as...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2014

ALBÉNIZ 7 Studies. Les Saisons. Suites. Danzas

Both of these albums will delight pundits and academics anxious to follow Albéniz’s early style before it blossomed into his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2014

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 92, 93, 97, 98 & 99

A touching tribute to Colin Davis from the orchestra with which he was latterly most closely associated. Sir Colin was...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2014

WEIR The Vanishing Bridegroom

It is going to be interesting to see how the newly appointed Master of the Queen’s Music responds to the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2014

SCHOENBERG Moses and Aron

This CD recording of Schoenberg’s most substantial dramatic work appears in the same year that Welsh National Opera gave the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2014

SCHUBERT Nachtviolen: Songs

With few exceptions, Christian Gerhaher ventures well off the beaten track in this superlative recital centring on the echt Schubertian...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 JANÁČEK Jenufa Suite

Manfred Honeck’s handling of the Eighth Symphony’s opening phrases is rapturously beautiful, the cellos truly espressivo, the initial bird-like entry...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

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