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BRAGA SANTOS Chamber Music Vols 2 & 3

Joly Braga Santos (1924-88) was a figure of exceptional importance in Portuguese music, as anyone who has heard the first...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas Op 5 (Raphael Pidoux)

This recording has two claims on your attention. It’s the latest release in Harmonia Mundi’s ‘Stradivari’ project showcasing historic instruments...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2021

JS BACH Sonatas for Viola and Harpsichord BWV 1027-1029 (Marie Stockmarr Becker)

The album’s opener, Bach’s Sonata in G, BWV1027, is lovely. Marie Stockmarr Becker and Ilaria Macedonio perform the Adagio with...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2021

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 1-10 (Berliner Philharmoniker)

While the Berlin Philharmonic’s Bruckner tradition began to be documented in the 78 era, with Jascha Horenstein conducting the Seventh...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021

WILSON Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Macdonald)

Born to British parents in the USA in 1927, Thomas Wilson moved to the United Kingdom as an infant and...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2021

TCHAIKOVKSY Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Nelsons)

The prime purpose of this box-set is undoubtedly to document Andris Nelsons’s accounts of Tchaikovsky’s last three (numbered) symphonies taped...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

SCRIABIN Symphony No 2. Le Poème de l'Extase (Katayenko)

For some years Dmitry Kitaenko has been revisiting his core repertoire, often in the company of the Gürzenich Orchestra, which...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2021

RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez (Jacob Kellermann)

‘Gusto in art is power or passion defining any object’, wrote William Hazlitt. Gusto defines these performances – better than...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2021

Marco Albonetti: Romance del Diablo - The Music of Piazzolla

Piazzolla never employed the saxophone in any of his own various tango ensembles, most likely because its reedy tone would...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021

MOZART Violin Concertos Vol 1 (Aisslinn Nosky)

The first volume of Mozart’s violin concertos from Aislinn Nosky turns out to be two-thirds reissues, the Third Concerto and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021

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