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CHOPIN Ballades & Scherzi (Marianna Shirinyan)

This album is my introduction to the Armenian-Danish pianist Marianna Shirinyan (b1978), though an album pairing Kuhlau and Beethoven album...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023

JS BACH Partita BWV827. French Suites Bwv 813, 814 & 816 (Christian Zacharias)

For someone who 10 years ago in an interview for The Independent claimed that Bach was ‘too boring’, a new...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2023

JS BACH Notebooks for Anna Magdalena (Mahan Esfahani)

Mahan Esfahani continues his survey of Bach, digging now into the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach and their fascinating miscellany...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2023

CPE BACH Fantasias (Aapo Häkkinen)

A sequence of fantasias by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach illustrates both his individuality and his pivotal position between generations: that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2023

The sun is free to flow with the sea

Onyx Brass’s ‘Festmusik’ album (Chandos, 6/21) was an intriguing recital of German works prompted by a collection of letters bequeathed...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2023

Phantasy in Blue

If you have ever wondered what four saxophones, a piano and a cello sound like, here’s your answer. It’s not...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023

1919: CODA - Janáček, Boulanger, Debussy, Elgar

Five years ago the Tate in London staged ‘Aftermath’, an exhibition of European art after the First World War. The...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2023

SKROWACZEWSKI Chamber Works

A child prodigy whose career as a concert pianist was cut short by injury, Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923-2017) made his career...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2023

RUBINSTEIN String Quartets (Reinhold Quartett)

Composed in the early 1850s, when Anton Rubinstein was just finding his way, these two confident quartets sport evident virtues:...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 08/2023

REICH Music for 18 Musicians

For around 20 years after its premiere in April 1976, Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians remained largely within his...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2023

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