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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 31 BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3 (Kate Liu)

When Kate Liu took the Bronze Medal at the 2015 Warsaw Chopin Competition, it was not a sign of general...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2025

Poème Mystique: Strauss, Bloch, Schubert, Faurè

Korean-American violinist Danbi Um’s second album for Avie offers an unusual pairing of sonatas by Richard Strauss and Ernest Bloch,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2025

ZORN Complete String Quartets

John Zorn’s successful career as saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and performer with free-form jazz and experimental improvisational groups such as Masada...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2025

THORVALDSDOTTIR Ubique

Ubique (2023) is a large-scale work for flute – doubling on the bass and contrabass instruments – with piano, two...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2025

SIMPSON Chamber Music Vol 1

Hyperion Records’ recordings from the mid-1980s onwards of the music of Robert Simpson (1921 97) did much to preserve his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2025

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 2, 7 & 10 (Jerusalem Quartet)

This recording by the Jerusalem Quartet is absolutely compelling from the outset, with Shostakovich’s Second Quartet – a much weightier...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 03/2025

SCHUMANN Three Violin Sonatas (Alina Ibragimova)

It’s interesting how strangely set apart Schumann’s violin sonatas remain from the standard repertoire, and thus how comparatively sporadically new...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2025

PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas (Lisa Oshima)

In the notes to her new Prokofiev album, Lisa Oshima takes ‘challenge’ as the keyword for the recording. Prokofiev set...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 03/2025

ENESCU; String Octets. Aubade

the programmes are utterly different. Roctet, billed as ‘the Netherlands’ first permanent string octet’, place it alongside a Double Quartet...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2025

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas (Amy Norrington)

How far can we take historically informed performance? The amateur dedicatee of Brahms’s First Cello Sonata was apparently so weak...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2025

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