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BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas

Beethoven composed these works as ‘Sonatas for pianoforte and violin’. The common designation, ‘violin sonatas’, is acceptable, I suppose, but...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Opp 127 & 59/2

Not perfunctory but not penetrating either. The Quartetto di Cremona are equal to technical demands but often wary of total...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2014

TCHIAKOVSKY; ARENSKY Piano Trios

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio set the example for Russian composers, perhaps with memories of Glinka’s Trio pathétique, of the medium as...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2014

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. Prince Rostislav

Vasily Petrenko rounds off his cycle of Rachmaninov symphonies for Warner (formerly EMI) Classics with this characteristically articulate and highly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2014

GRIEG Piano Concerto PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3

This unusual coupling works by contrast, the Grieg’s overt lyricism offset by the more feisty, wintry fairy-tale magic of the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014

ANDERSON Fantasias. The Crazed Moon. The Discovery of Heaven

Julian Anderson (b1967) is Mark-Anthony Turnage’s successor as the London Philharmonic’s resident composer. While his own music is not untouched...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014

SULLIVAN The Beauty Stone

It was a sad day for Sullivan when his ‘romantic musical drama’ The Beauty Stone ran for only 50 performances...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2014

Marina Rebeka: Mozart Arias

'A Latvian soprano who has dazzled audiences in New York and Vienna with her impassioned performance of Donna Anna,’ proclaims...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2014

EÖTVÖS Love and Other Demons

With his long experience as conductor and composer, Peter Eötvös will have been well aware of other operas centring on...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2014

La vallée des cloches

Bells and birds seem to be the subtext of Momo Kodama’s recital but her playing does not consistently ring out...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014

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