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MOZART Violin Sonatas (Ibragimova & Tiberghien)

Scarcely a note of adverse criticism has attended the three previous issues in this delightful series of accompanied sonatas from...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW17

MAXWELL DAVIES The Last Island

A keen sense of time and place – and increasingly of man’s transient existence within it – forms an important theme in...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW17

HAKIM Phèdre. Caprice. Diptyque. Piano Concerto

Composers and performers alike may strive for an improvisatory impulse in their music-making, but that’s rather different from allowing improvisatory freedom...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17

DVOŘÁK; SUK Piano Quartets

The Josef Suk Piano Quartet take their name from the great violinist rather than his composer grandfather, whose Op 1 they perform....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17

BUXTEHUDE Trio Sonatas Op 1

In their quickly expanding discography Jonathan Cohen’s Arcangelo are showing themselves to be among the most versatile ensembles around, as...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW17

BOYLE Music for Clarinet

Music of high organisation, clarity and expressive power here from Rory Boyle, born in Ayr in 1951 and currently professor...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17

BOISMORTIER Sonatas & Trios

Joseph Boismortier (1689-1755) may be well represented on disc but it’s fair to say that his name rarely sets the pulse truly racing....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW17

BOCCHERINI Six String Trios Op 34 G101‑106

The string trio is usually thought of in its Classical format, for one each of violin, viola and cello. It...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW17

MOZART; BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas

PR blurbs can be revealing. The cover states that the violinist Ji Young Lim is ‘accompanied by fellow South Korean Dong Hyek Lim’. No...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW17

ARBAN Fantasies on Verdi Operas

Wagner relates how, during his youthful stay in Paris, he kept body and soul together by arranging operatic melodies for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW17

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