All Reviews articles – Page 101
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ReviewIsabelle van Keulen: Prokofiev; Walton; Vaughan Williams
A subtle, unpretentious performance of three works for violin and viola
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ReviewElias Quartet: Beethoven
Drawing-room elegance and earthy vigour exist side by side in the Elias’s complete Beethoven
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ReviewArabella Steinbacher: Strauss
The German violinist shapes Strauss’s melodies with warmth and sincerity
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ReviewEuropa Galante: Concerti per Violini Vi 'La Boemia'
Biondi and Europa Galante speak Vivaldi’s multiple languages with utter naturalness, energy and charm
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ReviewDaniele Roccato; Giacomo Piermatti: Scodanibbio
A masterful rendering of an innovator’s key works for double bass
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ReviewNing Feng: Elgar and Finzi violin concertos
Old-fashioned violin virtuosity makes a case for these two concertos
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ReviewVilde Frang: Bartók; Enescu
A performance to match the constant and staggering invention of Enescu’s Octet
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ReviewThe Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
A very persuasive novel with music and violin making at its core
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ReviewHilary Hahn: Bach Solo Violin
Exceptional technical command and the utmost integrity and communication
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ReviewBaiba Skride: American Concertos
Persuasive and attention-grabbing versions of a trio of American concertos by Bernstein, Korngold and Rósza
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ReviewVadim Repin: Prokofiev Violin Concerto no.1, 1997 recording
Exciting live recording of an almost runaway late-nineties performance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
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ReviewRoger Reynolds: Aspiration
Irvine Arditti (violin), Paul Hembree (computer musician), Inauthentica/Mark Menzies
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ReviewPhilip Dukes; Anna Tilbrook; James Gilchrist: Vaughan Williams
Dukes matches his sound world exactly to Vaughan Williams’s string music
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ReviewChiaroscuro Quartet: Schubert String Quartets, no.14 ‘Death and the Maiden’, no.9 in G minor
Light and shade abound in performances of brisk, fierce beauty
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ReviewGli incogniti: Concerti per Esterházy
The Baroque group wanders into new territory with Haydn’s violin concertos
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ReviewSteven Isserlis; Dénes Várjon: Chopin
Steven Isserlis passionately argues the case for Chopin’s Cello Sonata
