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YSAŸE Six Sonatas for Solo Violin

In her poetic booklet-notes, Frederieke Saeijs emphasises her affinity with Ysaÿe’s unaccompanied Violin Sonatas. ‘I grew up in The Hague,...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons

Tchaikovsky’s opulent G major Sonata has all too often been seen as inflated and over-long. But in the right hands...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2016

SCHUBERT Works for Four Hands

I didn’t manage to catch Vol 1 of Jan Vermeulen and Veerle Peeters’s Schubert duets series, nor have I heard...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016

SCHUBERT 8 Impromptus

The sensitivity, tonal refinement and occasional micromanagement typifying Amir Katz’s Chopin Nocturnes, Ballades and Impromptus (Oehms) and Mendelssohn Songs Without...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2016

Satie Piano Music

Of all the ill-advised and inappropriate strategies to deploy when performing the solo piano music of Erik Satie, pretending that...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2016

RACHMANINOV Études-Tableaux (Complete)

One of Sviatoslav Richter’s great attributes as a Rachmaninov player was his ability to pick and choose among the compositions,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016

MARIOTTE Impressions urbaines. Kakémonos

There has been a resurgence of interest in Antoine Mariotte of late thanks to the revival, in 2014, of his...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016

LISZT Opera Transcriptions

It is nearly 20 years since Arnaldo Cohen inaugurated Naxos’s series of all Liszt’s solo piano music (6/97). Leslie Howard,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016

GALILEI The Well-Tempered Lute

This latest release from ak Ozmo again demonstrates the London-based lutenist and conductor’s searching intellect and wry imagination. But it...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2016

BORTKIEWICZ Piano Sonata No 2. Fantasiestücke

Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) was a man born out of his time, musically and physically. He had no time for atonal...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016

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