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SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21 (Dina Ugorskaja)

I doubt if the teacher who once banned the 23-year-old me from playing Schubert’s last piano sonata because she thought...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2020

HUNDSNES Clavinatas Nos 1-7. Piano Sonata No 1 (Laura Mikkola)

The Norwegian Svein Hundsnes (b1951) has composed three symphonies, concertos, two string quartets and several other works, but until now...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020

BEETHOVEN Works for Piano Four Hands (Peter Hill & Benjamin Frith)

In an absorbing booklet essay, Peter Hill encourages us to take seriously Beethoven’s modest output for piano duet as a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020

JS BACH; BARTÓK Suites (Julien Libeer)

Julien Libeer’s Bach takes full advantage of the modern concert grand’s dynamic and timbral resources while keeping within stylistically acceptable...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020

ALKAN Concerto for Solo Piano (Schaghajegh Nosrati)

Schaghajegh Nosrati (b1989, Bochum, Germany), a new name to me, is one of very few women pianists to have recorded...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2020

'Tis too late to be wise (Kitgut Quartet)

Theatre tunes and viol fantasias by Purcell, Matthew Locke and John Blow with a Haydn quartet plonked in the middle...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2020

Death and the Maiden (12 Ensemble)

Mahler’s string-orchestra version of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet has received quite a lot of attention on records, especially...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2020

STANFORD String Quartets Nos 1, 2 & 6 (Dante Quartet)

Hats off, folks: the completion of the first full recorded cycle of Stanford’s string quartets deserves a moment of acknowledgement....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Voyager Quartet)

Schubert’s music never lies far from the arranger’s pen – whether it be the composer himself, apotheosing songs for his...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2020

Russian Visions

The ‘meaning’ of a Schnittke score has always been more than usually dependent on the context in which it is...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2020

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