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SCHUBERT Chamber Works

Pentatone has packaged together the two volumes of Schubert recorded by Julia Fischer and Martin Helmchen in 2009. The performances...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue:

SALLINEN Chamber Music

In his Piano Trio, completed in 2010, Aulis Sallinen imagined ‘the sensuous world of a painter going blind’. It seems...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015

RILEY In C

Terry Riley’s In C extends an open invitation. Instrumentalists and singers with even rudimentary technical skills will likely have sufficient...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015

RIETI Chamber Music with Harpsichord

The composer and virtuoso harpsichordist Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994) is best known for his long and enduring friendship with Igor Stravinsky,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015

MOZART 6 String Quartets Dedicated to Haydn

The Quatuor Cambini-Paris have so far tended to focus on the more esoteric areas of the quartet repertoire – notably...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2015

LECLAIR Sonatas for 2 Violins

Two violinists playing mid-18th-century French music without continuo? Leclair published two sets 17 years apart, of which this, the second,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2015

JENKINS Fantasies a 4

I cannot recall quite so targeted a selection of John Jenkins’s viol music: previous recitals by Phantasm, Fretwork and Jérôme...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2015

FRANCK; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas

Occupying the central place in the canon of Romantic violin repertoire as it does, Franck’s Violin Sonata is programmed in...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015

Andreas Ottensamer: Brahms, the Hungarian Connection

This album explores Brahms’s lifelong fascination with Hungarian idioms. The programme, following the Quintet, comprises a series of arrangements by...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015

BORGSTRØM Works for Violin and Piano

Like other Norwegian Romantics with ears open to modern trends – Grieg and Ibsen come immediately to mind – Hjalmar...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2015

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