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L'aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (Céline Frisch)

Céline Frisch explores the work of Couperin’s contemporaries and successors in this amusing programme, ‘L’aimable’, constructed around the conceit of...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2022

VINE Complete Piano Sonatas (Xiaoya Liu)

The ‘world premiere’ description on this album’s cover is slightly deceiving. Carl Vine’s four piano sonatas do indeed appear together...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, D959 & D960 (Dong Hyek Lim)

Dong Hyek Lim’s Schubert is pianistically proficient, if not consistently enlivening from a musical standpoint. In the A major opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022

HAHN Poèmes & Valses (Pavel Kolesnikov)

Writing to one of his contemporary champions, the Venezuelan-born Frenchman Reynaldo Hahn admitted that he valued the other arts as...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2022

GRIEG Lyric Pieces, Vol 1 (Peter Donohoe)

In this first of what will apparently be two volumes of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Peter Donohoe digs deep into this...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022

DOWLAND 'Lessons' (Jonas Nordberg)

Jonas Nordberg writes in a brief booklet note of ‘the rich mix of melancholy, joy and beauty’ that is John...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2022

Fondation Gautier Capuçon présente Kim Bernard: Chopin, Ravel, Debussy

French cellist Gautier Capuçon has established a foundation in his name with the goal of aiding young musicians early in...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022

Louis Lortie Plays Chopin, Vol 7

Louis Lortie’s Chopin odyssey continues with the judicious ordering of groups of mazurkas interspersed with some of the stand-alone solos....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2022

JS BACH Suites for Solo Cello (Marina Tarasova)

This is not a recording for the faint-hearted. Anyone expecting soothing, bubble-bath arpeggiations from the Prelude of the First Suite...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2022

Lamenting Lullaby: English Oboe Quartets

Last October I reviewed a programme of British oboe quintets played by Nicholas Daniels and the Doric Quartet featuring works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2022

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