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A Gift for your Garden: Telemann, Handel, Graun, Oswald

Here’s a sweet concept for an album: a celebration of the passion for botany – not simply gardening, but an...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2025

Irène Duval: Fauré and Friends

Two names new to me – but, from this showing, names of whom we shall be hearing much more in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2025

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 1-5 (Cuarteto Casals)

While it’s true that Shostakovich’s first five quartets were all written between the Purges and Stalin’s death (from 1938 to...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 01/2025

SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14 SCHIPHORST Sei gutes Muts ANDRE 7 Pieces for String Quartet

Schubert’s Death and the Maiden String Quartet, preceded by two new commissions written in response to it, one featuring recorder...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2025

NGWENYAMA Flow

Born in Los Angeles in 1976 of Zimbabwean and Japanese descent, Nokuthula Ngwenyama first came to prominence as a talented...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2025

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

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