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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade BORTKIEWICZ 5 Melodies from a Thousand Nights

Sheherazade as chamber music? Reduced to four members? Somewhere up there, Leopold Stokowski, the man who made this music a...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015

Duo Gemini: Road Movies

Plangent sounds and punchy rhythms permeate the five compositions for violin and piano played very impressively on this recording by...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2015

VIVALDI Sonatas for Violin and Continuo

Vivaldi’s Op 5 consists of six sonatas: four for solo violin, followed by two trio sonatas, the latter a well-established...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 01/2015

STILL String Quartets Nos 1 - 4

The four string quartets by Robert Still (1910 71) chart a fascinating stylistic journey. Premiered in 1948 (and not heard...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015

SCHUBERT Trout Quintet

This is the kind of disc a reviewer dreads. Why, you might ask? Is it so terrible? Far from it,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2015

A PANUFNIK String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 R PANUFNIK Memories of my Father

This recording is a kind of conversation between father and daughter; it begins with a luscious arrangement for string sextet...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2015

A PANUFNIK String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 LUTOSŁAWSKI String Quartet

The Panufnik Quartets have been recorded before, by the Chilingirian Quartet on the defunct Conifer label (12/93) and the Silesian...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2015

MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Cello and Piano

R Larry Todd will be familiar to many readers as a Mendelssohn scholar. Clearly he’s an able pianist too, which...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2015

KEELEY Concerto for Piano and 12 Instruments. Dances with Bears

Although Rob Keeley may be known among contemporary music mavens for his formidable pianistic prowess and championing of new works,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2015

HUME Harke, Harke! Lyra Violls Humors & Delights

Time is always well spent in the musical company of Captain Tobias Hume. For the Scottish-born professional soldier-for-hire, music was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2015

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