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JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Pablo Suarez Calero)

Competition in recordings of Bach’s solo violin music is strong and plentiful, and one might be forgiven for thinking Pablo...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023

Bach's Missing Pages (Sietze de Vries)

For Albert Schweitzer the Orgelbüchlein was ‘The Bible of Bach’. For Russell Stinson it is ‘simultaneously a compositional treatise, a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2023

CPE BACH Württemberg Sonatas (Keith Jarrett)

Keith Jarrett needs no introduction as an interpreter of JS Bach, but the affective world of Carl Philipp Emanuel is...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023

Music For A New Century

As album titles go, ‘Music for a New Century’ offers a varied if somewhat uneven snapshot of new music composed...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2023

Mozart’s Mannheim; SCHMITTBAUR Symphonies (Ehrhardt)

The historically valuable DG ‘Mozart’s Mannheim’ release arrives swathed in a robe of academic authority. ‘Mozart’s correspondence reveals how he...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023

Christian Li: Discovering Mendelssohn

I missed Christian Li’s debut album for Decca (he became the label’s youngest-ever signing in 2020), warmly welcomed by Mark...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

WALTON Violin Concerto RESPIGHI Violin Sonata (Liya Petrova)

What a shrewd coupling: seemingly unlikely bedfellows united not just by dint of having both been written in Italy (the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

TAKEMITSU Spectral Canticle

These belles quarts d’heure follow a tried-and-tested recipe, coming out a little differently each time. On a blind tasting you...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Nézet-Séguin)

I would not have had Nézet-Séguin down as a natural Sibelian, and I would have been completely wrong. Too few...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 14. Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva (Storgårds)

With Shostakovich’s word-setting what happens between the words is, more than with any other composer I know (with the exception...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

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