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RACHMANINOV; ARENSKY; SHOSTAKOVICH; MUSSORGSKY Piano Trios

Ever since Glinka’s Trio pathétique of 1832, Russian composers have associated the piano trio with elegy, among them Arensky for...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2015

TANEYEV Complete Quintets

Taneyev was one of the few people from whom his teacher Tchaikovsky would tolerate criticism, though Taneyev himself regretted that...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2015

STOCKHAUSEN Mantra

I didn’t much care for the version of Stockhausen’s Mantra that Xenia Pestova, Pascal Meyer and Jan Panis issued via...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 2. Piano Quintet

This is the second joint release from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet. Last time it was in Schumann’s Quintet...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2015

ROSING-SCHOW Alliages

Although his music has been little heard in the UK, Niels Rosing-Schow (b1954) is a leading voice in Danish new...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015

PROKOFIEV Visions Fugitives. SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes

A star in his native Austria, Benjamin Schmid has never been a conventional virtuoso. His discography tends to avoid the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2015

PLEYEL String Quartets

This bodes well: ‘Hidden Gems, Vol 1’. Ignaz Joseph Pleyel is a name more remembered for his piano firm than...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2015

MESSIAEN Fantasie. Quartet for the End of Time

This issue contains a genuine rarity – Messiaen’s 1933 violin-and-piano Fantasie – already fully characteristic of his earlier manner, yet...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015

MOZART String Quartet No 15 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No 2

There is no doubt that there is the sort of energy on this disc, particularly in the Mendelssohn, that is...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2015

LISZT Music for Violin and Piano

Not many readers, even those of us who worship at the shrine of Franz Liszt, will have encountered these works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015

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