Recording Reviews – Page 27
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ReviewGabriele Pieranunzi: Paganini
Chamber music displays another side to the virtuoso violinist–composer
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ReviewMandelring Quartet: Ravel, La Tombelle
An exploration of the Germanic roots of the French string quartet
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ReviewFenella Humphreys: Sibelius, Josephson
A concerto with strength of spirit plus a heavenly journey postscript
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ReviewThéotime Langlois de Swarte: Proust, Le Concert Retrouvé
An exquisite musical madeleine to be enjoyed again and again
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ReviewElan Quintet: Onslow
Attractive and lyrical playing in latest volume of late Classical quintets
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ReviewAlina Ibragimova: Paganini
Lockdown recording yields atmospheric communing between player and violin
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ReviewAris Quartet: Beethoven, Resch
An intense, tightly wound ‘Rasumovsky’ plus expressive contemporary response
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ReviewMarie Stockmarr Becker: Bach
Expressive, sweet-toned playing especially in the slow movements
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ReviewJuilliard Quartet: Beethoven, Bartók, Dvořák
Classic quartet programme to celebrate the birthday of a refined ensemble
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ReviewPablo Ferrández: Rachmaninoff, Falla, Granados, Casals
Soulful Spanish–Russian fusion in a highly successful mainstream debut
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja: Pierrot lunaire
Not just a violinist – PatKop’s singing alter ego is extraordinary
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ReviewAlessio Pianelli: A Sicilian Traveller
Spirited arrangements from an innovative and idiomatic cellist
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ReviewNils Mönkemeyer: Vivaldi, Rolla, Tartini, Paganini, Sciarrino
Inventive viola arrangements the Red Priest would surely have enjoyed
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ReviewVioleta Vicci: Mirror Images
A remarkable concept album by a unique and imaginative solo performer
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ReviewViktoria Mullova: Beethoven
A bright, fresh ‘Spring’ characterises violinist’s second Beethoven outing
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