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JS BACH The French Suites (Alexandra Papastefanou)

For all the myriad appeal of the six French Suites and miscellaneous transcriptions of Alexandra Papastefanou’s new two-disc First Hand...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets (Miró Quartet)

The Miró Quartet began their Beethoven cycle in 2004 with Op 18. I sat in on one of those recording...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

Fretwork: In Nomine II

Though Richard Boothby writes in the booklet notes that this ‘isn’t an anniversary’ of their first recording, ‘In nomine’ (Amon...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2020

WEINBERG Chamber Music (Kremer, Avdeeva, Dirvanauskaitė)

DG follows its release of Weinberg symphonies (6/19) with one of chamber music featuring members of Kremerata Baltica. Works for...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY; BABAJANIAN Piano Trios

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio is, by any standards, one of the peaks of the repertoire; given the difficulties balancing the three...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Last Three String Quartets (Fitzwilliam Quartet)

Only one of the players on this official 50th-anniversary recording was part of the Fitzwilliam Quartet that recorded the group’s...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Trio D929 (Hamlet Piano Trio)

The booklet is an oddity, describing the wonderful Notturno, D897, as ‘a great rarity’. Presumbly that’s a rarity along the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020

RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH; DENISOV Cello Sonatas

Twentieth-century Russia left cellists spoilt for choice: a player who wants to record a sonata disc can choose from bona...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

PERLE Serenades

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project are quietly building a most impressive library of contemporary American composition. For their latest release,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

MARAIS Deuxième Livre de Pièces de Viole (1701)

Upon reviewing this release, I had every intention of listening to it every day until publication. Six hours of Marin...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2020

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