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MENDELSSOHN Works for Cello & Piano (Sol Gabetta)

Although memorably heartfelt and at times heroic, Felix Mendelssohn’s immensely likeable First Cello Sonata is hardly on a par with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024

Handel for Trumpet: Concertos and Arias Re-Imagined (Jonathan Freeman-Attwood)

Mozart, Strauss, 17th-century English madrigals … to say that (our own) Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Timothy Jones’s series of ‘reimaginings’ of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2024

FAURÉ The Music for Cello and Piano

This album beautifully showcases exactly the contrasts – the surprising varieties of light and shade – that we expect from...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 02/2024

CORBETTA 'La Guitarre Royalle'

It’s easy to imagine the peripatetic Italian guitarist and composer Francesco Corbetta (c1615-1681) cheerfully plucking and strumming his way through...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2024

WF BACH; GOLDBERG Trio Sonatas

If it did nothing else, Forkel’s origin story for the Goldberg Variations immortalised the name of Bach’s student, who would...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2024

Chromosphere: Symphonic Colours of the Woodwind Orchestra

Subtitled ‘symphonic colours of the woodwind orchestra’, Divine Art’s ‘Chromosphere’ is an engaging collection of attractive new works – all...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024

Avi Avital 'Baroque Album'

If I hear a recording this year more guaranteed to put a spring in my step than this, then 2024...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4 (Welser-Möst)

The Cleveland Orchestra recorded only one Tchaikovsky symphony with their longtime music director George Szell (the Fifth in 1959 for...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024

SUPPÉ Fantasia Symphonica; Orchestral Overtures; Preludes (Rudner)

The star attraction in this attractive Suppé collection is the Fantasia symphonica, a recent discovery by the conductor Ola Rudner,...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024

STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto (Frank Peter Zimmermann; James Ehnes)

Not so long ago, in the words of writer and broadcaster Michael Oliver, Stravinsky’s elegant Concerto ‘generally sounded very nasty...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2024

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