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SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 2, 7 & 10 (Jerusalem Quartet)

This recording by the Jerusalem Quartet is absolutely compelling from the outset, with Shostakovich’s Second Quartet – a much weightier...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 03/2025

SCHUMANN Three Violin Sonatas (Alina Ibragimova)

It’s interesting how strangely set apart Schumann’s violin sonatas remain from the standard repertoire, and thus how comparatively sporadically new...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2025

PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas (Lisa Oshima)

In the notes to her new Prokofiev album, Lisa Oshima takes ‘challenge’ as the keyword for the recording. Prokofiev set...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 03/2025

ENESCU; String Octets. Aubade

the programmes are utterly different. Roctet, billed as ‘the Netherlands’ first permanent string octet’, place it alongside a Double Quartet...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2025

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas (Amy Norrington)

How far can we take historically informed performance? The amateur dedicatee of Brahms’s First Cello Sonata was apparently so weak...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2025

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Nevermind)

Never has there been such an abundance of remarkable new recordings of the Goldberg Variations in transformed – even at...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2025

New Year's Concert 2025

Riccardo Muti’s appearance at 2025’s New Year’s Day concert with the Vienna Philharmonic was his seventh, meaning that he has...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2025

SINDING Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Steffens)

So Grieg was Norway’s miniaturist and Sinding its natural symphonist? I’m not so sure, and this complete set of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2025

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé (Pappano)

Ravel’s erotic pastoral – the Greece of his dreams – finds a kindred spirit in Antonio Pappano. Sometimes in music...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2025

RACHMANINOV Orchestral Works (Măcelaru)

Cristian Măcelaru is in his final season as Chief Conductor of Cologne’s WDR Symphony. They’ve released a number of albums...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2025

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