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BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2 WEBERN Concerto Op 24 (Pina Napolitano)

Reviewing Pina Napolitano’s first ‘Brahms the Progressive’ recording (7/18), I wrote how the pianist seemed more confident and commanding in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Blomstedt)

Herbert Blomstedt is a member of a much-respected senior ‘rostrum elite’ (Haitink, Boult, Böhm, Wand and the like) that over...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2022

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 STUCKY Silent Spring

Manfred Honeck’s Beethoven does not ‘speak for itself’, whatever that is supposed to mean. Indeed, this Pastoral delivers something to...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2022

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos (Luks)

Following in Bach’s footsteps is never straightforward – few of the locations associated with him are quite what they seem....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2022

FAURÉ Complete Songs (Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës)

Here’s a delicious treat that should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating. Complete sets of Gabriel Fauré’s songs are...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022

Jordan Bak: Impulse

For his solo debut album, the Jamaican-American viola player Jordan Bak has put together a recital of daringly introspective music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2022

SUMMER Hamlet

The American composer Joseph Summer (b1956) is no stranger to opera, having written several comic operas early in his career,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022

REYNOLDS Violin Works (Gabriela Díaz)

For two minutes one hears an unaccompanied violin playing jagged short phrases, upwardly slithering long lines and discreetly deployed double-stops....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

BIDDINGTON Music from Torrens Road: Orchestral Works

I am prepared to bet that New Zealand-born composer Eric Biddington (b1953) is as unknown to the majority of this...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022

JS BACH Partitas (Eleonor Bindman)

Eleonor Bindman’s Bach pianism is all about clarity and order. Her strong and assertive fingerwork complements her firmly centred rhythm....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

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