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ALKAN Character Pieces & Grotesqueries (Mark Viner)

The more one listens to Alkan’s music, the more one realises what an extraordinary composer he is. Though the three...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

Upheaval: Bosmans, Pejačević, L & N Boulanger

Less than a decade ago, Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) was such an unknown that Jeremy Nicholas could begin a...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024

Le Temps retrouvé: Fauré, Bonis, Hahn, Boulanger

A sepia postcard framing the artists, a red rose lying alongside it, illustrates the booklet of ‘Le temps retrouvé’, a...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024

A Lionel Tertis Celebration (Timothy Ridout)

London East Ender Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) was one of the most influential viola players of the last century, his sound...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024

SCHUMANN Piano Quartet. Piano Quintet

Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an instrumental combination virtually unknown at the time. Amazingly, the two Schumann masterpieces...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024

OSWALD 12 Sonatas for Violin & Basso Continuo (Capella Jenensis)

This release isn’t far off being the complete works of the Thuringian composer Andreas Oswald. Born in Weimar in 1634,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024

MENDELSSOHN Works for Cello & Piano (Sol Gabetta)

Although memorably heartfelt and at times heroic, Felix Mendelssohn’s immensely likeable First Cello Sonata is hardly on a par with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024

Handel for Trumpet: Concertos and Arias Re-Imagined (Jonathan Freeman-Attwood)

Mozart, Strauss, 17th-century English madrigals … to say that (our own) Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Timothy Jones’s series of ‘reimaginings’ of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2024

FAURÉ The Music for Cello and Piano

This album beautifully showcases exactly the contrasts – the surprising varieties of light and shade – that we expect from...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 02/2024

CORBETTA 'La Guitarre Royalle'

It’s easy to imagine the peripatetic Italian guitarist and composer Francesco Corbetta (c1615-1681) cheerfully plucking and strumming his way through...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2024

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