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GEMINIANI Sonatas for violoncello (Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde)

Following her hugely enjoyable middle-European mid-century recital for piccolo cello (10/23), Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde presents a selection from Geminiani’s Cello Sonatas,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2025

FAURÉ; SZYMANOVSKI 'Notturno' (Eva Zavaro)

The concept for this album is very interesting, with a combination of pieces created at a time when the long-established...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 01/2025

BUSONI Violin Sonatas (Francesca Dego)

Francesca Dego joins a select elite who have taken on these sonatas informed by the experience of playing Busoni’s bristling...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2025

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Yuuko Shiokawa)

There’s a special feeling of intimacy and mutual understanding in Yuuko Shiokawa and András Schiff’s music-making – not surprising given...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2025

BORUP-JØRGENSEN 'Silence is Music Too'

Axel Borup-Jørgensen (1924-2012) was arguably the most singular Danish composer in a golden age of innovators and individualists. A childhood...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2025

AHO String Quartets Nos 1-3 (Stenhammar Quartet)

Listen blind to Kalevi Aho’s String Quartet No 1 and you might presume you were hearing some lost neoclassical Grieg,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2025

Matilda Lloyd: Resonance

Mieczysław Weinberg’s wryly acerbic Trumpet Concerto (1967) has fared well on records, with notably fine interpretations by Selina Ott (Orfeo)...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2025

Daniil Trifonov: My American Story - North

There is much to love in Daniil Trifonov’s salute to his adopted US (a second volume celebrating Latin America will...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2025

The Golden Age of the Horn; Auf der Jagd Romantik

Horns often hunted in pairs during the 18th century. The presence of a number of horn-playing duos in Europe’s major...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2025

TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty (Rouvali)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, the Philharmonia’s Principal Conductor, seems to relish Tchaikovsky’s three ballets, programming selections from them in concerts that have...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2025

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