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BUSONI Fantasia contrappuntistica. Chopin Variations. Sonatina prima & seconda. Bach transcriptions (Peter Donohoe)

‘Few composers have so determinedly avoided popularity as Busoni’, noted Bryce Morrison just over a decade ago (11/13). But is...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2025

Something So Transporting Bright

Collaboration has been key to The Kreutzer Quartet’s tireless promotion of chamber music repertoire for more than 30 years. As...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2025

Le Mercure Galant

This latest release in the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series, featuring innovative young Dutch violinist Charlotte Spruit, takes its...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2025

'Der meint‘es treu!' Music for Fortepiano & Winds from the Biedermeier Salon

This album seeks to conjure the atmosphere of the salons of Central Europe during the so-called Biedermeyer period, the early...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2025

Bill & Friends

William Christie was 80 in December, and this release is a celebration of the fact by some of the fine...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2025

RUDD-JONES Three Sonatas

Among the Generation Z of contemporary composers, Sam Rudd-Jones is rapidly emerging as one of its leading figures. Polemical statements,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2025

RIHM Fremde Szenen

The death of Wolfgang Rihm last July will hopefully bring him into greater focus. If his diverse output rejects easy...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2025

PROKOFIEV 'Milestones Vol 2'

>Its title might conjure up jazz reworkings, but this second ‘Prokofiev Milestones’ continues the favourable impression of its predecessor (3/24)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2025

PÄRT; POULENC; PROKOFIEV 'Mirrors'

Poulenc never intended to write a conventional violin sonata; he once remarked that the romantic combination of singing violin and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2025

MARSCHNER Piano Trios Vol 1

Best known for his operas Hans Heiling and Der Vampyr, Heinrich Marschner (1795-1861) also composed seven substantial piano trios that...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2025

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