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BARDEN Anatomy

Mark Barden’s music pursues a forensic exploration of the instrumental body. In live performance, this can give a theatrical air...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2021

JS BACH Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord (Robert Smith)

The title and cover of this album are misleading, for Robert Smith and Francesco Corti have hidden loveliness between the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2021

Bomsori: Violin On Stage

Like so many musicians trapped in the midst of the Covid pandemic, the young South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim has...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2021

The Brandenburg Project

We take familiar works such as the Brandenburg Concertos for granted, argues Thomas Dausgaard in his booklet note. Other composers...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2021

WEBER Konzertstück. Overtures. Arias (Eschenbach)

The impetus for this recording appears to be that both Der Freischütz and the F minor Konzertstück were posthumously premiered...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2021

VIVALDI Violin Concertos Vol 9 'Le nuove vie' (Boris Begelman)

Vivaldi was such an original and yet so consistent with his language – its punchy rhythms, dynamic contrasts, surprise shifts...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2021

SIBELIUS Violin Concerto. Humoresques (Fenella Humphreys)

Fenella Humphreys wears her virtuosity lightly. She’s one of those very ‘contained’ players whose musicality looks you straight in the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2021

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 1, 14, 15 & Chamber Symphony (Nelsons)

Shostakovich’s first and last symphonies make for intriguing bedfellows: the beginning and end of a tortuous journey, heavy with irony...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2021

POULENC Aubade. Le Bal masqué, Flute Sonata. Sextet

This is Mark Bebbington’s second Poulenc disc for Resonus and a more than worthy companion to its predecessor, much admired...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2021

MYASKOVSKY Symphony No 27 PROKOFIEV Symphony No 6 (Petrenko)

This last of Vasily Petrenko’s discs as chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic finds the team on something like top...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2021

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