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CHOPIN Nocturnes (Fazil Say)

Despite their unmistakable indebtedness to John Field, Chopin’s Nocturnes remain unique in the literature. As a group, they are without parallel...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Gorini)

It is easy to hear why Filippo Gorini should have won the 2015 Telekom Beethoven Competition at the age of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas 'Waldstein', 'Appassionata', 'Les Adieux'

Fine violins often improve with age. Pianos, on the other hand, as intricate machines with many moving parts, inevitably deteriorate....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Tetzlaff)

Christian Tetzlaff has plenty to tell us about Bach’s unaccompanied violin music. Sample almost anywhere in this beautifully played set...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2017

Serebrier Conducts Granados

The title is something of a misnomer. José Serebrier and the Concerto Málaga, founded in 1996, offer us not so...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

Daniil Trifonov: Chopin Evocations

Daniil Trifonov’s last release was an impressive and exhilarating two-disc programme of Liszt’s Studies (10/16). It was an Editor’s Choice and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 4 & 6

The fifth instalment in Mark Elder’s Vaughan Williams symphony cycle launches with a strikingly lithe, poised and painstakingly prepared reading...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2017

SZYMANOWSKI; KARŁOWICZ Violin Concertos

Three violin concertos – all Polish but all very different in mood – make up this latest release from Tasmin Little. Programmed last...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017

STRAUSS Oboe Concerto. Sonatina No 2

A tempting prospect: a programme of Richard Strauss played by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and featuring, in the Oboe Concerto,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2017

SAWYERS Symphony No 3. Songs of Loss and Regret

Philip Sawyers’s Third Symphony (2015) is undoubtedly one of the finest British symphonies of recent years. It was premiered for this...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2017

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