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JS BACH Complete Cello Suites (Bruno Philippe)

‘I am convinced that honesty and faith in one’s ideas can result in a form of individuality’, claims the French...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin (James Ehnes)

Last June I reviewed James Ehnes’s superb recordings of Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonatas, recorded at his home over a few...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

The Saxophone Craze: Homage to Rudy Wiedoeft

A notable venture of the Covid pandemic was Jonathan Radford’s exploration of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ with Ashley Fripp, throwing a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022

Between Two Worlds: Lassus, Beethoven, Adès & Dowland

Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters reflects, in its title at least, TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, the first of which, ‘Burnt...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

SCHOENBERG String Quartets Nos 1 & 3 (Gringolts Quartet)

Volume 1 of this series was welcomed in these pages (10/17) for values of architectural clarity and expressive restraint which...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2022

SCHNITTKE; SHOSTAKOVICH; SILVESTROV 'Outcast'

This is a genuinely remarkable disc. I say this not from any association of its contents with current events, but...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2022

RAFF Complete Works For Cello & Piano

Pity Joachim Raff. Pity any fine second-rank composer who had the misfortune to work within the orbit of Liszt, Brahms...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2022

MOZART 'The Palatine Sonatas', K301-306

The six violin sonatas Mozart composed in Mannheim and Paris during the spring and summer of 1778 don’t often appear...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2022

LECLAIR Violin Sonatas, Book 3; Op 5, Nos. 5-8

It’s strange that there aren’t more recordings of Leclair’s Op 5 Violin Sonatas, given how much they have going for...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2022

KRÜGER Ain’t Nuthin’ But Fairy Dust

Given clubbing’s ubiquity, it’s surprising that there are so few club-culture-themed compositions. An outlier is Richard Baker’s sensuously thrilling The...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2022

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