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KORNGOLD String Quartets Nos 1-3 (Tippett Quartet)

Hans Keller used to talk about ‘insiders’ of the string quartet: string-playing composers with an instinctive understanding of quartet textures....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2023

FRANCK Cello Sonata STROHL Titus et Bérénice (Sandra Lied Haga)

Norwegian cellist Sandra Lied Haga opts for a French programme for her recital with Katya Apekisheva, juxtaposing the familiar Franck/Delsart...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023

FRANCK; MARTIN Piano Quintets

César Franck’s Piano Quintet has notoriously divided opinion since it was first heard in January 1880, when Saint-Saëns, sight-reading his...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas (Weithaas)

Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon highlight the Kreutzer Sonata’s fantasia-like, improvisatory qualities. Thus, while Isabelle Faust plays the opening four-bar...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2023

BEETHOVEN; BERWALD Septets

The early 19th century couldn’t get enough of Beethoven’s Septet, to the composer’s mounting irritation (‘too much sentimentality and too...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2023

BAUMBUSCH Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet

The sounds of gamelan instruments were first heard in the US at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and it’s close...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2023

Prism V - Beethoven, Webern, Bach

You need your wits about you and the volume up to catch the head-motif opening Webern’s String Quartet of 1905,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2023

An Englishman Abroad

Who is this Englishman? Well, it’s Nicola Matteis – not the Italian violinist-composer we usually hear but rather his son...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2023

WEILL Symphonies Nos 1 & 2. Der Silbersee (Gruber)

Who was it, again, who said that all music was either fundamentally symphonic or fundamentally balletic? In any case, there...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2023

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 49th Parallel (Yates)

Vaughan Williams came late to film composing. By 1940, when he started on his first such score, for 49th Parallel,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

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