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JS BACH Metamorphoses: Toccata, Partita and Suites for Solo Violin (Marco Serino)

These are impressive performances from violinist Marco Serino that more than hold their own against other leaders in the field....

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2025

Timothy Ridout: Telemann, Bach, Britten, Shaw

BBC New Generation Artist and Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellow Timothy Ridout’s impressive discography across orchestral and chamber music is already sufficient...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2025

Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger (Samson Tsoy)

‘So sensitive and personal’ – that’s how Patrick Rucker described Schubert’s F minor Fantasie in the hands of Samson Tsoy...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2025

ALBENIZ; CHOPIN; GRANADOS 'Echos' (Charles Richard-Hamelin)

The most convincing performances of Chopin’s seldom-heard Allegro de concert texturally differentiate the work’s solo and tutti passages. Charles Richard-Hamelin...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2025

Violino over cornetto

Taking its cover at face value, violin and cornetto duets are the focus of this new chamber recital from the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2025

New Baroque – Sonatas

This recording showcases the results of the fifth iteration of the annual RůŽičková Composition Competition, which invites composers to write...

Reviewed in issue 04/2025

Renaud Capuçon: Richard Strauss

The opening tutti of the 17-year-old Richard Strauss’s Violin Concerto has a Schumann-like ring to it, especially as played by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2025

ROSLAVETS Cello Sonatas 1 & 2 (Marina Tarasova)

Nikolay Roslavets was born in 1881, the same year as Myaskovsky, Bartók and Enescu. His father worked for the railway,...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 04/2025

RAVEL; SCHUBERT 'Harmonie du Soir'

The Trio Con Brio Copenhagen recorded the Ravel Trio for a 2007 release (nla) on the US-based Azica label. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2025

MOZART Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin (Sayaka Shoji)

‘Sonatas for keyboard with violin accompaniment’, we are always reminded, and in performances on instruments of the period (or very...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2025

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