Classical music + Album reviews
Hourglass album review – Simone Dinnerstein gives Glass room to breathe
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Vol 1 album review – fresh-as-a-daisy performances from a duo with a gift for storytelling
Dvořák: Symphony No 9 album review – Shani brings a natural freshness to a familiar work
Colin Matthews: Seascapes album review – the songs teem with detail
Or, the Whale album review – Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee collaboration offers intimacy and joy
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen album review – Luisi has a keen sense of the operatic architecture
Dancing on a Volcano album review – a glorious technicolour snapshot of pre-war musical Germany
Martinů: The Symphonies 1-6 album review – Hrůša is a persuasive guide to this distinctive and likable cycle
Helen Charlston: A Poet’s Love album review – original and absorbing
Arcadi Volodos: Schubert piano sonata D850, Schumann Kinderszenen op15 – playfulness, longing and elegance
Morales: L’Homme Armé masses and Magnificat Secundi Toni album review – choral sounds of 16th-century Rome
Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Cello album review – Watkins and Bax have a shared impulse to deliver eloquence
Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Lemminkäinen Suite album review – Ava Bahari is an enthralling storyteller
Timothy Ridout: Alto Appassionato album review – engaging and smartly curated viola and piano programme
Sean Shibe: Vesper album review – ever-imaginative guitar virtuoso brings mind-expanding flights of fancy
Samuel Hasselhorn: Schubert Hoffnung review – timbral and emotional flexibility is in ample supply
Reich: The Sextets album review – Colin Currie celebrates the minimalist master’s joy of six
Mahler Symphonies 1–9 album review – Bychkov’s set earns a place in a starry pantheon
Shostakovich: Symphonies No 2 and 5 album review – early experiment meets mature power
Messiah album review – Whelan takes Handel’s oratorio back to its beginnings
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