Review: Tango de Saxos (Nexas Quartet)
Nexas prove the saxophone quartet can rival the strings in sultry Latin delights.
October 13, 2021
Review: Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (Krystian Zimerman, London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle)
Zimerman and Rattle produce a Beethoven Piano concerto cycle for the ages.
October 12, 2021
Review: Lully, Charpentier & Desmarets: Passion (Véronique Gens)
Superb re-imagining of French Baroque opera by Véronique Gens.
October 8, 2021
Review: Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works (Andy Baker Orchestra)
Sowerby shows the Roaring Twenties behaving themselves.
October 7, 2021
Review: Bach: Aufs Lautenwerk (Daniel Lippel)
Lippel presents Bach refretted, reimagined and rejuvenated.
October 6, 2021
Review: Enigma (Spektral Quartet)
A startling string quartet, like you’ve never heard it, for these pandemic times.
October 5, 2021
Review: Summertime (Isata Kanneh-Mason)
Young Brit star plays American tunes for much-anticipated sophomore album
October 1, 2021
Review: Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Oper Zürich)
Gerhaher shines in a revelatory, thinking-man’s Boccanegra for the ages.
September 30, 2021
Review: Nino Rota: Chamber Music
Nino Rota finally sheds his Fellini baggage.
September 29, 2021
Review: The Visionaries of Piano Music (Kit Armstrong)
Modern master of the keyboard revels in Renaissance glories.
September 28, 2021
Review: Haydn 2032, Vol. 10: Les heures du jour (Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini)
From dawn to dusk: Haydn’s journey through the hours vividly realised.
September 20, 2021
Review: Divertissement (C/O Chamber Orchestra)
New kids on the block make a debut for the ages.
September 17, 2021
Review: Générations (Théotime Langlois de Swarte, William Christie)
No generational divide in rarely-heard French Baroque violin works.
September 16, 2021