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JS BACH Cello Suites (Alisa Weilerstein)

Perhaps the most illuminating way to sample this remarkable set is to home in on three consecutive movements from the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2020

JS BACH The complete works for keyboard, Vol 3 (Benjamin Alard)

Benjamin Alard’s project to record Bach’s complete works for harpsichord and organ is an awesome one; there must be few...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2020

Exiles in Paradise

Émigré composers who wound up in Hollywood (or at least in the neighbourhood) are the agents that bind this excellently...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2020

Cantilena

Tabea Zimmermann makes quite an entrance with the programme-opener on ‘Cantilena’, Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango. Not because it’s an explosive...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2020

SCHUBERT Sonatinas 'Boundless'

Schubert composed this trio of small-scale sonatas in the spring of 1816, right around the time he was at work...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2020

SCHARWENKA Chamber music

Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917) knew how to write chamber music, as the four works of his maturity amply demonstrate. His output...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020

REZNICEK Five String Quartets (Minguet Quartet)

Despite his Bohemian-sounding name, Reznicek was Viennese by birth and then a Berliner by career, and despite the vintage fizz...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020

MONTALBETTI 'Harmonieuses Dissonances'

French composers launching their careers in the early 1990s – Eric Montalbetti was born in 1968 – had a rich...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2020

KAPUSTIN Saxophone Chamber Music

Long one of Russia’s best-kept musical secrets, Nikolai Kapustin (b1937) has latterly found appreciation for his distinctly classical take on...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2020

HAYDN String Quartets Op 17 (Lepizig Quartet)

Late in life, Haydn reportedly expressed the wish that his canon of string quartets should be considered to have begun...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2020

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