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BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem (Nagano. Gardner)

Two German Requiems appear almost simultaneously, with a number of similarities but also, as is evident from the repertoire lists...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2025

BOISMORTIER Les Quatre Saisons

In February 1724 Boismortier obtained a royal privilege permitting him to engrave, publish and sell his works. Printed soon afterwards,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2025

Schubert + Voříšek + Chopin + Scriabin (Can Çakmur)

Can Çakmur continues his Schubert-plus series with a programme of impromptus that effectively meets his aim of showing Schubert ‘at...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2025

Bertrand Chamayou: Ravel Fragments

If you love Ravel and enjoy recordings that defamiliarise music you thought you knew, this collection should captivate you. It...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2025

Tamara Stefanovich: Organised Delirium

In her booklet comments, Tamara Stefanovich recalls playing Boulez’s Second Sonata for the composer, and how he conducted her playing...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2025

James Rhodes: Mania

When James Rhodes first appeared on the scene, his punk-rock stage attitude and harrowing backstory sometimes pulled focus from his...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2025

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason: Fantasie

The first movement of this Chopin Second Sonata successfully balances extremes of tempo and affect. The Doppio movimento begins like...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2025

Alain Planes: Satie

This latest album by Alain Planès forms a neat symmetry with the pianist’s earlier recording of Satie’s compositions for piano...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2025

RAVEL Complete Solo Piano Works. Piano Concertos (Seong-Jin Cho)

Seong-Jin Cho has recently been celebrated for a series of Ravel marathons, single concerts in which he played the complete...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2025

RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. The Isle of the Dead (Boris Giltburg)

Having covered the concertos, Preludes, Études-tableaux and Moments musicaux to warm plaudits, Boris Giltburg now turns his attention to the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2025

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