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A Beethoven Odyssey Vol 8 (James Brawn)

James Brawn’s traversal of Beethoven’s piano sonatas has reached its eighth instalment, with a selection of sonatas composed between 1800...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2024

JS BACH Der Kunst der Fuge (Christophe Rousset)

It’s a strange fact that, although it is generally accepted that Bach intended The Art of Fugue for harpsichord, recordings...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2024

Bruce Liu: Waves

After his utterly exceptional disc of Chopin, recorded live during the course of the 2021 International Chopin Competition (12/21), Canadian...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024

Philarmonica: Purcell, Matteis, Mrs Philarmonica

The young French early music group Le Consort has form when it comes to uniting Baroque’s biggest names with near-forgotten,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024

Painted Light: Music for String Quartet

Perceptions of colour connect each of the works on the Solem Quartet’s new album. The musical styles range from Impressionism...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024

Fathers & Daughters

Its title may conjure Turgenevian imagery but ‘Fathers and Daughters’ celebrates the close familial and professional ties between these four...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024

REGER; SENFTER Clarinet Quintets

Having completed their traversal of Mozart’s string quartets, then recently issued an insightful coupling of piano quintets by Franck and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024

RAVEL; SCHUMANN String Quartets (Leonkoro Quartet)

The Leonkoro (Esperanto: ‘Lionheart’) Quartet make their debut album following a string of competition wins. As I remarked in a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024

MÜLLER-HARTMANN Chamber Works

The ‘Music in Exile’ series led by the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble has turned up several worthwhile discoveries among those Jewish...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024

MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps MURAIL Stalag VIIIa

No 20th-century composition rises more determinedly above earthly trials and tribulations than the quartet for violin, cello, clarinet and piano...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024

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