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BRONSART; URSPRUCH Piano Concertos

The astounding thing about Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series is that, at Vol 77, it’s still going strong and that...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

BRAHMS Symphonies and Serenades (Venzago)

Mario Venzago’s recordings of Bruckner symphonies with the Tapiola Sinfonietta and other chamber orchestras raised eyebrows and furrowed brows. I...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018

BRAHMS Symphony No 3 (Dausgaard)

More muscular, immediate Brahms here from Thomas Dausgaard’s Meiningen-sized Swedish Chamber Orchestra but, where the previous two instalments (the first...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018

BIZET Symphony; DEBUSSY Fantaisie (Villaume)

Opinions differ about Debussy’s Fantaisie, his only work for piano and orchestra, completed in 1890. Self-critical as always, Debussy himself...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

BERNSTEIN 'Broadway to Hollywood'

For its Bernstein centenary tribute, Somm’s historical label Ariadne has released a series of previously unavailable NDR broadcasts from Hanover...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos (Marcin Świątkiewicz)

Świątkiewicz was the harpsichordist who in 2015 shone an attractively characterful and joyous light on the little-known keyboard concertos of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW18

Calidore String Quartet: Resilience

The cover of this new release from the Calidore Quartet has the four players standing in sunglasses in a Manhattan...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2018

Poetical Humors

At first sight, the young accordionist Vincent Lhermet and veteran viola da gamba player Marianne Muller seem the oddest of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2018

Jiyoon Lee: Mythes

Jiyoon Lee’s Champs Hill recital with Henry Kramer follows hard on the heels of her remarkable debut album (Orchid, A/18),...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

VIVALDI Sonatas for cello and basso continuo

There’s a happy inevitability about French period cellists taking Vivaldi’s six cello sonatas into the recording studio, when the Bibliothèque...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2018

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