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JS BACH Cantatas Nos 21 & 147 (Rademann)

Two Weimar-period cantatas are presented in their revised Leipzig versions, prepared during Bach’s first few months at the Thomaskirche. Ich...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2022

Inon Barnatan: Time Traveler’s Suite

The last time I reviewed Inon Barnatan in these pages he was playing Schubert (Avie, 11/13), and most impressive it...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2022

Pavel Šporcl: Paganiniana

Appearances can be deceptive. We’re told online that the Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl ‘combines a talent for classical music with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022

Kian Soltani: Cello Unlimited

If the Oscars had an Academy Award for musical instruments, the cello’s cabinet would be chock-full of trophies by now....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022

MOZART Solo Keyboard Works (Keiko Shichijo)

Having walked out of his church job in Salzburg for the first time in August 1777, Mozart was packed off...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2022

MONTGEROULT Complete Piano Sonatas (Nicolas Horvath)

Many of the sonatas on this two-disc set of keyboard music by Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) are premiere recordings, and...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2022

LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Saskia Giorgini)

Although Liszt thought highly of his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and often performed them for friends long after he retreated...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022

CHOPIN Piano Sonatas (Alexander Kobrin)

Alexander Kobrin, born (in 1980) and trained in Russia, now based in America, was the winner of the 2005 Van...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2022

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Fugue on a Theme by Handel (Jonathan Fournel)

Jonathan Fournel takes the Maestoso directive in the opening movement of Brahms’s F minor Sonata seriously and the note values...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022

JS BACH Organ Works (Elena Privalova)

The star of the show here is the mighty Walcker organ of Riga Cathedral. It makes a fabulous noise; especially...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2022

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