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DEBUSSY Sonatas and Trio

‘The musical genius of France is something like fantasy in sensibility’, said Debussy, and if it’s still hard to swallow...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2017

CAGE Chess Pieces. Four Dances JOHNSON Rational Melodies

As David Lang indicates in his warmly opinionated booklet recollections, Tom Johnson (b1939) is best known as an insightful and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017

BRAHMS; JANÁČEK Clarinet Sonatas

These performances of Brahms’s clarinet sonatas have a feeling of spontaneity that suggests involved, intimate conversation. Shirley Brill and Jonathan Aner...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2017

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 7 & 10

Period instruments are to the fore here, an anonymous Italian violin from 1690 (the Gaulard bow dates from 1820), and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017

CPE BACH Sonatas for Viola da Gamba

The German viola da gambist Johanna Rose has already appeared on a fair few recordings, several of which have been...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

Lucienne: The Art of the Trumpet

Is it a sign of age or are trumpeters getting younger these days? By the time she was signed last...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

Dresden

It’s a nice disc that can make evident something you may have known about but never quite appreciated for yourself. In...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017

WALTON Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Karabits)

If memory serves, Martyn Brabbins was the last to pair both these masterworks on a single disc (with the BBC Scottish SO...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2017

WALTON Viola Concerto BRUCH Kol Nidrei

When it comes to Walton’s Viola Concerto, surely the finest and most original of his string concertos, perhaps Markus Poschner’s Bamberg opening...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017

TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty

If you ever doubted that, beneath his steely gaze, Vladimir Jurowski has a keen sense of humour, skip immediately to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

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