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Schubert Reimagined (Josephine Knight)

Adaptations of Schubert range from faithful transcriptions to more intricate amplifications and radical realisations such as Berio’s Rendering. Since the...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 08/2024

Tempus omnia vicit: Purcell, Schubert, Josquin

International music competitions gifting a recording as part of their first-prize package may be increasingly common but few competition-label partnerships...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2024

RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonatas (Dóra Kokas)

According to cellist Dóra Kokas, ‘Hypnosis’ (this programme’s title) refers to the hypnotherapy Rachmaninov underwent in order to overcome a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024

POHLE Complete Sonatas & Ballet Music (Sailly)

David Pohle’s name is probably not familiar to many. Though his music appears on a handful of recorded anthologies of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2024

ELGAR 'Mot d’amour' Works for Violin and Piano

Of the many recordings now available of Elgar’s Violin Sonata (which I surveyed in a Gramophone Collection in January 2016),...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2024

DEL CAMPO String Quartets 8 & 9

The legacy of 14 quartets by Conrado del Campo (1878-1953) has so far not won the attention of Naxos’s compendious...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024

BUXTEHUDE 'Alchemy of Another' Trio Sonatas Op 1

Recordings of Buxtehude’s trio sonatas enjoy a healthy presence in the catalogue these days, no doubt because their unusual scoring...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2024

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas 6, 1 & 8 (Viktoria Mullova)

‘Will Mullova keep us waiting another ten or more years for her next sonata instalment’, I asked when the second...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024

NIELSEN The Symphonies: Recordings 1965-2022

Fifty years ago, the LSO and Ole Schmidt gave us the first complete recording of Nielsen’s symphonies, braving power cuts...

Reviewed in issue 08/2024

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Future. The Steersman. Fantasia for piano and orchestra

There are now two versions of Vaughan Williams’s big-boned Fantasia for piano and orchestra (1896-1904) to choose from. Never published...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 08/2024

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