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JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-1012

From the first open G string of the first Prelude, the persona of Philip Higham’s performance of the Bach Cello...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2015

JS BACH English Suite No 2 PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 6

In her accompanying essay to this release (there is no specific biography), the Danish pianist Elisabeth Nielsen claims that the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2015

Forbidden Music in World War II

Released to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this remarkable set, a compilation of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2015

Solitudes: Baltic Reflections

Not just another mood disc hung off Baltic longing, tragedy and melancholy, but one whose view of the Baltic encompasses...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2015

Divine Noise: Theatrical Music for Two Harpsichords

Guillermo Brachetta has set us an aural puzzle: what should we make of it? The theatrical music alluded to in...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2015

A Concert for Madame de Sévigné

The Marquise de Sévigné (1625 96) was a 17th-century blogger, writing letters to family and friends about life at the...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2015

Ophélie Gaillard: Alvorada

Immediately, ‘Alvorada’ stands apart from other discs by more typical classical musicians who make a Spanish/Latin American pitstop. Falla’s durable...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2015

THUILLE Chamber Works

Various labels have been exploring the music of Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907) over recent years, though few star names have been...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015

TELEMANN Music for Wind Band

These four overture-suites and one chamber concerto are pretty much what one would expect from Telemann: amiable, urbane, expertly written...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015

SAINT-SAËNS Chamber Music

Two sonatas for violin and piano, two for cello and piano, all composed before 1905 (strangely, no sonatas for his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015

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