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BORTKIEWICZ A Letter (Zhenni Li-Cohen)

On this release, up-and-coming Zhenni Li Cohen sets herself a substantial challenge. To begin with, Ukrainian-born Sergei Bortkiewicz is a...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2023

JS BACH Das Wohltemperierte Clavier (Wolfgang Rübsam)

Organist, harpsichordist and sometimes pianist Wolfgang Rübsam here performs Bach’s monumental Das woltemperirte Clavier on a single-manual gut-strung Lautenwerk or...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2023

JS BACH Partitas Nos 1, 5 & 6 (Nils Anders Mortensen)

This is Bach in private mode, intimate, exploratory and rarely demonstrative. Nils Anders Mortensen recorded this first set of three...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2023

Daniel Lozakovich: Spirits

This album is rather jewel-like: small but perfectly formed. Daniel Lozakovich’s playing is shimmering and stylish, offering a set of...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 07/2023

Maria Ioudenitch: Songbird

Unlike most young violinists who devote their debut CDs to flashy repertoire, Maria Ioudenitch puts forth the proposition that the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2023

1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli & Pisendel

1723. Are you racking your brains as to what exactly happened 300 years ago that was worthy of an album-shaped...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2023

MOZART; WIDMANN Clarinet Quintets

Jörg Widmann has performed Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet with the Hagen Quartet ‘countless times’, according to the booklet. In 2009 the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023

KORNGOLD String Quartets Nos 1-3 (Tippett Quartet)

Hans Keller used to talk about ‘insiders’ of the string quartet: string-playing composers with an instinctive understanding of quartet textures....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2023

FRANCK Cello Sonata STROHL Titus et Bérénice (Sandra Lied Haga)

Norwegian cellist Sandra Lied Haga opts for a French programme for her recital with Katya Apekisheva, juxtaposing the familiar Franck/Delsart...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023

FRANCK; MARTIN Piano Quintets

César Franck’s Piano Quintet has notoriously divided opinion since it was first heard in January 1880, when Saint-Saëns, sight-reading his...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023

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