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HELLENDAAL 'Cambridge' Sonatas

Johannes Pramsohler unearths long-forgotten Baroque gems, then presents them to the world via a superlative premiere recording. It’s now a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2020

HAYDN String Quartets Op 20 – No 1; No 4; No 6 (Dudok Quartet)

Though it garnered enthusiastic reviews elsewhere, the Dudok’s first volume of Haydn’s epoch-making Op 20 quartets slipped through the Gramophone...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2020

GRIEG Violin Sonatas (Eldbjørg Hemsing)

Game of Tones? I know it’s not the done thing to comment on CD covers, but when an artist has...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2020

BUSONI Violin Sonatas (Ingolf Turban)

Although published in 1901 as Op 36a, Busoni considered his Second Violin Sonata to be his actual Op 1, dismissing...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios, Vol 1 (Sitkovetsky Trio)

Did any composer make a bigger splash with their Op 1 than Beethoven? Taking what had hitherto been a small-scale...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Vol 3 (Casals Quartet)

As Teodor Currentzis remarked about recording Beethoven’s symphonies, there is a danger, even in sets of such exceptional character as...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020

WEINBERG Symphonies. Chamber Symphonies (Duczmal-Mróz)

Whether or not the music of Mieczysław Weinberg makes further inroads in terms of actual performance, his recorded representation shows...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

TÜÜR Mythos

It’s almost an indulgence to put three such significant, non-concertante orchestral works by Erkki-Sven Tüür, played by a virtuoso orchestra,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No 1 (Baiba Skride) TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5

A cultivated rather than hell-for-leather Tchaikovsky Fifth was the first audio-only recording project of Andris Nelsons’s CBSO years (Orfeo, 10/09)....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (Storgårds)

Each time I hear the opening of this symphony – in filmic terms a long slow pan across the frozen...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020

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