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TANEYEV; ARENSKY Piano Quintets
The shadow of Tchaikovsky is sometimes said to fall over both of these fine works; it would be fairer to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2013
Celestial Dawn
Joseph Beadle | Owen Saldanha | The Pembroke College Girls' Choir
Until recently girls had little choice when it came to top-level choristerships. The news that both St John’s, Cambridge, and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022
Concertos for Trumpet and Trombone
David Zinman | Jeffrey Segal | Michael Bertoncello | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
The subtle inflections Jeffrey Segal brings to the trumpet’s only genuine Classical concertos, the Haydn and Hummel, is just what...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2005
Rubenson Orchestral Works
Roy Goodman | Umeå Symphony Orchestra
Most people, when thinking of mid-nineteenth-century Swedish composers, will readily think of Franz Berwald and then stop. There were of...
Reviewed in issue 8/1999
Saint-Saëns Piano Trios
1863 and 1892 are the dates of these trios, of which No. 1 was written by a composer not yet...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1995
Le Paris des Romantiques
(Le) Cercle de l'Harmonie | Jérémie Rhorer
The premise of this fascinating disc is that all three composers knew, worked with and respected one another in the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012
GOUVY Symphony No 4
German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern | Jacques Mercier
As an admitted non-specialist in the works of Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 98), I am perhaps just the sort of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013
Farrenc Works for Violin and Piano
Gaëtane Prouvost | Laurent Cabasso
Louise Farrenc (1804-75), a courageously lone figure in a man's world, was a highly skilled composer, pianist and teacher and,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2008
R. Strauss Piano Sonata. Funf Klavierstücke
Probably not even the greatest Strauss enthusiast would place the Sonata, Op. 5, the third he wrote for the piano,...
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
Spohr Double Quartets
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Spohr was first drawn to the idea of the double quartet by Romberg, but it was a form he made...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1986
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