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PAGANINI 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (Sueye Park)

The first point worth making is that BIS’s recording of the featured Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin (Cremona, 1739) is extremely...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2018

KOMITAS Seven Songs

The eventful and ultimately tragic life of Komitas (aka Soghomon Soghominian, 1869-1935) might well overshadow his legacy as collector of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018

BRAHMS Handel Variations. Ballades Op 10

What constitutes interpretation? Surely every artist worthy of the name seeks to internalise the message of the music she or...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018

JS BACH; YSAŸE Solo Violin Sonatas

It does seem extraordinary that no violinist before Antje Weithaas has recorded a full double cycle of the solo violin...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2018

JS BACH Cello Suites (Demenga)

This is not a reissue of the Bach Cello Suite recordings that Thomas Demenga taped for ECM some 30 years...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2018

ALKAN Edition: The major piano works, chamber music, chamber concertos and organ music

This is the first time Alkan has been granted box-set status. It is a remarkable promotion for a composer who...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2018

A Russian Journey

The superb musicianship, masterly technique and programming savvy informing the American organist Gail Archer’s previous Meyer Media releases prevail throughout...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2018

Elegia

Christopher Nichols and his accompanist Julie Nishimura are colleagues at the University of Delaware. Their programme, primarily designed to showcase...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2018

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (Piano Duo)

Stravinsky’s four-hand transcription of the complete Petrushka ballet has often been recorded, but not his duet versions of the three...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2018

MYERS Ether Music

David Lee Myers (b1949; aka – between 1987 and 1993 – ‘Arcane Device’) is a leading figure in American electroacoustic...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2018

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