GADE Chamber Works Vol 2

Ensemble MidtVest

Each piece on this second volume in Ensemble MidtVest’s survey of chamber music by Niels Gade is troubled by issues...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017

LEWANDOWSKI 18 Liturgical Psalms

Andor Izsák | Hungarian Radio Choir

Unfamiliar as I was with the music of Louis Lewandowski (1821 94), the first name that came to mind on...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020

Borodin Chamber Works, Vol. 3

Alexander Bobrovski | Alexander Bonduriansky | Alexander Gotthelf | Alexander Polonski | Alexandre Detisov | Alexandre Osokine | Igor Suliga | Mikhail Utkin | Vladimir Ivanov

All the works on this admirably played anthology date from the period 1850-60 and in later years Borodin referred to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1998

BRAHMS Three Piano Trios

Emanuel Ax | Leonidas Kavakos | Yo-Yo Ma

Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma’s recording of Brahms’s Piano Quartets – winner of Gramophone’s 1991 Chamber Music Award – was made with...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017

Schumann Piano Quartet Op.47; Piano Quintet Op.44

Here’s a useful coupling of Schumann’s two works for strings with piano from 1842, his magnificent “year of chamber music”,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 8/2009

Spohr Symphonies Nos 3 & 6

Howard Shelley | Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Howard Shelley has a strong feeling for the varieties and subtleties of Spohr’s symphonic style, and here continues his cycle...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/2010

Great Pianists - Moiseiwitsch Vol 6

Benno Moiseiwitsch | Constant Lambert | Philharmonia Orchestra

Here is Volume 6 of Naxos’s continuing Moiseiwitsch series, the unfolding of a legend in the best possible transfers taken...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2003

Lost is my Quiet

The billing promises much, and the performances certainly deliver. Colleagues in Baroque oratorio and opera for nigh on a decade, Carolyn Sampson...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2017

Joo Yeon Sir: Chaconnes, Divertimento and Rhapsodies

Irina Andrievsky

Since Joo Yeon Sir’s debut album, ‘Suites and Fantasies’ (9/17), concluded with Igor Frolov’s concert fantasia on Porgy and Bess,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2019

Joachim Orchestral Works

Elmar Oliveira | Leon Botstein | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Though these are not, as Pickwick unwarily announced, ''first ever recordings'' of these works (the Hungarian Concerto has been recorded...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1991