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BARTÓK Piano Works

Normally one concludes a review with comments about sound quality, but in this case the engineering’s full-bodied piano sonority and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 2, 3 & 6 arr Viola

Finally, the Ukrainian viola player Maxim Rysanov has completed his collection of JS Bach’s Cello Suites transcribed for viola after...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014

Do Not Go Gentle

The Bingham Quartet have long included new commissions in concerts and this disc collates works mainly written either side of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014

1917: Works for Violin and Piano

Tamsin Waley-Cohen’s love for Debussy’s Violin Sonata of 1917 led her to assemble four works for violin and piano written...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2014

SCHUBERT String Quintet D956. String Quartet D703

Myriad moods, immoderate demands and ‘unplumbed melancholy underlying even his brightest and most vivacious moments’ (WJ Turner’s description of Mozart...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014

RUBINSTEIN Piano Quartets

Having dealt comprehensively with Liszt (99 CDs for Hyperion), the indefatigable Leslie Howard has been espousing Anton Rubinstein, one of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2014

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 2, 3 & 6

Four notes – G sharp, A, F natural and E – opening Beethoven’s A minor Quartet, Op 132, must have...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014

MANCINI Solos for Flute

Francesco Mancini (1672-1737) spent all of his working life in his native city of Naples, notably as Alessandro Scarlatti’s successor...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014

STRAUSS; MAHLER String Quartets. Lieder

In ways more subtle in scale but no less carefully provocative than orchestral recordings by Norrington and Zinman, this recording...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2014

HAYDN; PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets

The Edinburgh Quartet’s finely matched sound and firm sense of rhythm lead to a splendid performance of the Haydn. It’s...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue:

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