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PENDERECKI String Quartets. Clarinet Quartet. String Trio

Penderecki’s works for string quartet cover the whole of his creative life, the first acknowledged one dating from 1960 and...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2023

PANDOLFI MEALLI Violin Sonatas Opp 3 & 4 (Eva Saladin)

This is the second solo album from violinist Eva Saladin. Her first (Glossa) explored 17th-century violin sonatas from the so-called...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2023

MOZART Violin Sonatas (Renaud Capuçon)

When is a violin sonata not a violin sonata? When it’s by Mozart, we’re told, the idea with him, metaphorically...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023

HAAS; JANÁČEK String Quartets (Escher String Quartets)

A piece or performance of Janáček tends to impress us by means of unfiltered expression. To look for hidden depths...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023

DOWLAND Lachrimae (Jadran Duncumb)

All the playing here is on an international level: beautifully balanced, marvellously flexible in phrasing and tempo, with much well-judged...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Fantasiestücke DVOŘÁK String Quartet Op 106

The Takács Quartet’s reputation precedes them. Gramophone Award-winners, resident at London’s Southbank Centre, the University of Colorado Boulder and now...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 09/2023

BRAHMS; REGER Clarinet Quintets

Clarinet quintets by Brahms and Reger make an obvious coupling that should have been taken up more widely but which...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2023

JS BACH The Art of Fugue (Casals Quartet)

How string quartets engage with the musical challenges and opportunities of performing ‘old’ four-part music – whether Purcell’s Fantasias or...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2023

Krzysztof Meisinger: Mystique

I almost wish that Krzysztof Meisinger’s improvised Invocazione introducing Domeniconi’s popular Koyunbaba suite had opened his recital, so mysterious and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2023

Après un rêve - Belle Époque: Nights at the Piano (Emmanuel Despax)

This is a heartfelt tribute to the pianist’s late poet grandfather, whose fondness for the French belle époque repertoire is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

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