The Mathilde Album (Quatour Arod)

Arod Quartet

Come for the sex, stay for the music. That would seem to be the implication behind the title of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

Diana Tishchenko: Strangers in paradise

Diana Tishchenko | Zoltán Fejérvári

When the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko won the 2018 Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris she was the indisputable winner....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2019

Tine Thing Helseth: Magical Memories For Trumpet and Organ

Kåre Nordstoga | Tine Thing Helseth

There are some artists who have the unteachable gift of turning the simplest, most ordinary and even third-rate music into...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021

LIEBERMANN Frankenstein

Martin West | San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

Within just five years of its publication in 1818, Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel inspired a stage play that became...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 02/2022

REZNICEK Five String Quartets (Minguet Quartet)

Minguet Quartet

Despite his Bohemian-sounding name, Reznicek was Viennese by birth and then a Berliner by career, and despite the vintage fizz...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos

Michel Plasson | Philippe Entremont | Toulouse Capitole Orchestra

Saint-Saens was a fine pianist himself, and the five concertos he wrote for his instrument between 1858 and 1896 are...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1990

Grieg Lyric Pieces, Vol. 3

Peter Katin

Grieg's Lyric pieces belong in a tradition of short pianistic essays and tone-poems, of which famous earlier examples include Beethoven's...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

RUBINSTEIN Piano Sonatas 1 & 2 (Han Chen)

Han Chen

As far as I know, this is only the third recording of Rubinstein’s E minor Sonata and the second of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2020

Purcell Songs Realised by Britten

Is this set for lovers of Purcell or Britten? Or perhaps both? Now that we have ample opportunity to hear...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2016

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 1, 5 & 8 (Tamsin Waley-Cohen)

Huw Watkins | Tamsin Waley-Cohen

These are closely miked studio accounts, with little sense of the 300-seat Snape Maltings acoustic in which they were recorded,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2020