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Vagues et ombres

Debussy’s music has proved particularly attractive to arrangers, perhaps unsurprisingly since so many of his orchestral works were collective collaborations...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022

CHOPIN; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas (Jean-Guihen Queyras)

According to Isabelle Rouard’s booklet note, Ignaz Moscheles described Chopin’s Cello Sonata as like ‘a wild overgrown forest, into which...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022

CAPLET Suite Persane DUBOIS Dixtour D'INDY Chanson Et Danses

As Habakuk Traber observes in his perceptive notes, the late 19th and early 20th centuries were something of a golden...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2022

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas & Songs (Antonio Meneses)

This programme is identical to Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel’s, with seven song arrangements sandwiched between the two cello sonatas....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022

Prism IV: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bach

Phrased in two (like Schiff) instead of four (Gould), the G minor Fugue from Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2022

JS BACH Ouvertures-Suites

If you wish to test the mettle of a recording of Bach’s Overtures – known to many as his Orchestral...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2022

Estonian Premieres

We have had Shostakovich and Tüür (3/18, 6/20) from Paavo Järvi’s exceptional and distinctive orchestra combining all-star continental European principals...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2022

XIAOGANG YE Sichuan Image

This is BIS’s third album of music by Shanghai-born Xiaogang Ye, this time featuring music originally composed for film. Sichuan...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2022

WILMS The Piano Concertos, Vol 1 (Ronald Brautigam)

Johann Wilhelm Wilms was born near Cologne in 1772. That’s just two years after Beethoven, and only 50 or so...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2022

WEILL Symphony No 2. Violin Concerto (Tomás Kocsis)

No one ever needs to convince me of Kurt Weill’s importance in the great scheme of music. Not just in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2022

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