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BUXTEHUDE Organ Works, Vol 2 (Friedhelm Flamme)

With Bach, approaches to interpretation may be many and varied but there is some kind of established yardstick for such...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2022

BRAHMS Late Piano Pieces (Paul Lewis)

If a single word were to describe what pianists played in public during the 19th century, it might be ‘variety’....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 106 & 111 (Angela Hewitt)

Now that Angela Hewitt has concluded her Beethoven sonata cycle with two of its ‘biggest guns’, it appears that she...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022

JS BACH 'Bach on the Rauwolf Lute' (Jakob Lindberg)

With time, a musical work takes on the character of a character. It’s played by players who, often aided by...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2022

CPE BACH Sonatas & Rondos (Marc-André Hamelin)

Certain performers seem to find a Being John Malkovich-like secret portal to the brain of every composer they play. Marc-André...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2022

Specchio Veneziano

As a ‘Venetian mirror’, I suppose it is inevitable that we hear doubles on this album. Le Consort present the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022

From Brighton To Brooklyn (Elena Urioste, Tom Poster)

Violinist Elena Urioste is from the US, her pianist husband Tom Poster from the UK, and this recital teases out...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022

WEINBERG 'Light in Darkness'

Having earlier recorded the violin sonatas (Challenge Classics, 9/13), Violin Concerto (7/14), violin Concertino (9/15) and solo violin sonatas (9/16),...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022

SCHUBERT Late String Quartets (Fitzwilliam Quartet)

Following on from the Fitzwilliam’s recording of Schubert’s Rosamunde and Death and the Maiden Quartets on Divine Art comes this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022

MOZART 'Piano and Winds' (Ma'alot Quintet)

Mozart’s piano concertos were habitually played in quartet or quintet reductions during the 18th century. The composer explicitly authorised such...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2022

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