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Review of CAGE Chess Pieces. Four Dances JOHNSON Rational Melodies

CAGE Chess Pieces. Four Dances JOHNSON Rational Melodies

As David Lang indicates in his warmly opinionated booklet recollections, Tom Johnson (b1939) is best known as an insightful and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017

Review of BRAHMS; JANÁČEK Clarinet Sonatas

BRAHMS; JANÁČEK Clarinet Sonatas

These performances of Brahms’s clarinet sonatas have a feeling of spontaneity that suggests involved, intimate conversation. Shirley Brill and Jonathan Aner...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2017

Review of BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 7 & 10

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 7 & 10

Period instruments are to the fore here, an anonymous Italian violin from 1690 (the Gaulard bow dates from 1820), and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017

Review of CPE BACH Sonatas for Viola da Gamba

CPE BACH Sonatas for Viola da Gamba

The German viola da gambist Johanna Rose has already appeared on a fair few recordings, several of which have been...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

Review of Lucienne: The Art of the Trumpet

Lucienne: The Art of the Trumpet

Is it a sign of age or are trumpeters getting younger these days? By the time she was signed last...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

Review of Dresden

Dresden

It’s a nice disc that can make evident something you may have known about but never quite appreciated for yourself. In...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017

Review of WALTON Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Karabits)

WALTON Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Karabits)

If memory serves, Martyn Brabbins was the last to pair both these masterworks on a single disc (with the BBC Scottish SO...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2017

Review of WALTON Viola Concerto BRUCH Kol Nidrei

WALTON Viola Concerto BRUCH Kol Nidrei

When it comes to Walton’s Viola Concerto, surely the finest and most original of his string concertos, perhaps Markus Poschner’s Bamberg opening...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017

Review of TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty

TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty

If you ever doubted that, beneath his steely gaze, Vladimir Jurowski has a keen sense of humour, skip immediately to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

Review of SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos. Piano Sonatas

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos. Piano Sonatas

What a sensible idea to programme both of Shostakovich’s concertos with the two piano sonatas, with the early First Sonata getting...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017

 

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