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PICKARD The Gardener of Aleppo (Nash Ensemble)

The seven works on this terrifically played, imaginatively programmed disc cover over 30 years of John Pickard’s career. They are...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

ELGAR; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Sonatas (Jennifer Pike)

Reviewing some 30 recordings of Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor for a Gramophone Collection in January 2016, it was...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2020

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas (François Salque, Eric Le Sage)

It’s one thing for a group of musicians to produce a complete chamber works cycle whose separate multifarious-force constituents are...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio Op 70 No 2. Symphony No 2 (Beethoven Trio Bonn)

The second of Beethoven’s Op 70 pair is rather the poor relation among the numbered piano trios, its radiance effaced...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2020

ARTYOMOV Album XI

Vyacheslav Artyomov turned 80 this year. His reputation may rest significantly on large-scale orchestral works, such as the Requiem and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

Camille Thomas: Voice of Hope

Fazıl Say describes his 2017 Cello Concerto as an artistic response to the terror attacks in Paris and Istanbul, and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

Music of the Spheres

Marketing in overdrive and a concept that has misfired, but don’t let that stop you listening to these fresh and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

Sarah Willis: Mozart y Mambo

Sarah Willis is hardly the first to put a Cuban spin on classical works. But where, say, the Klazz Brothers’...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights

The idea for this recording came out of a casual conversation between fellow Georgians Lisa Batiashvili and Nikoloz Rachveli about...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

L’Heure Bleue; Hildegard, Hersant, Hartmann, Shostakovich

If I’ve unpacked it right, there are two converging strands to this project: the atmosphere of ‘that fleeting moment between...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

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