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FAURÉ Complete Nocturnes (Eric le Sage; Nicolas Stavy)

Two new discs, by Eric Le Sage on Alpha Classics and Nicolas Stavy on BIS, add further testimony that Gabriel...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2019

CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3 (Eugen Indjic)

The prospect of another recording of Chopin’s two most popular piano sonatas does not necessarily fill one with ‘a running...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2019

BRAHMS Piano Pieces SCHUMANN Kinderszenen (Sarah Beth Briggs)

The British pianist Sarah Beth Briggs bookends her recital with Schumann, launching the disc with Papillons and ending with Kinderszenen....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2019

BRAHMS Piano Pieces (Fabian Müller) 'Stolen Moments' (Rikke Sandberg)

The young Bonn native Fabian Müller has captured laurels at competitions in Frankfurt, Bolzano and Munich. His debut recording, which...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2019

Alexei Kornienko plays Bach, Beethoven and Brahms

Listening to Alexei Kornienko play Bach is like stumbling into a time warp. His hyper-romanticised approach, uprooted from cultural and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2019

JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites (Jiří Bárta)

Jiří Bárta is his own closest rival here, his earlier Supraphon recording vying with this Animal Music remake. The two...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2019

Taeguk Mun: Songs of the Cello - Homage to Pablo Casals

‘Homage to Pablo Casals’ is this disc’s subtitle, and there’s nothing like setting yourself a high standard. It’s a sort...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2019

Sueye Park: Salut d’amour

It’s interesting quite how many recording tributes to the late 19th and early 20th century’s great violinists have been appearing...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2019

THORVALDSDOTTIR Aequa

Hard on the heels of Nordic Affect’s recording of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s string trio Reflections (2016), in a fascinating mixed programme...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019

STOCKHAUSEN Kurzwellen

The latter half of the 1960s is often referred to as Stockhausen’s ‘intuitive’ period, when he largely abandoned the systematic...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019

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