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MOZART String Quartets, Vol 5 (Armida Quartet)

‘Some of the most extraordinarily gawky music that [Mozart], so rarely in the slightest awkward, ever wrote.’ Thus Paul Griffiths...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW22

MENDELSSOHN Compete String Quartets, Vol 1 (Quatuor van Kuijk)

This is a golden age for Mendelssohn string quartets, once treated with faint condescension but now recognised as arguably the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW22

MARAIS La gamme

When Marais published La gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie in 1723, he was 67 years old. He would die...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW22

BRIDGE; BRITTEN; DEBUSSY Cello Sonatas (Truls Mørk)

Nearly a quarter of a century since recording Britten’s three Solo Suites (Erato, 4/01) and re-recording the Cello Symphony (12/99),...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW22

BIBER Sonatae Violino Solo 1681

As much as Biber’s Rosary (or Mystery) Sonatas of c1674 are wonderful, it does seem a shame that we only...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW22

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios, Op 1 Nos 1 & 2 (Rautio Piano Trio)

‘That bass line was meant to sound gruff! These semiquavers scatter effortlessly in the upper register.’ Pianist Jan Rautio offers...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW22

BARRY In the Asylum

Longtime advocates for Gerald Barry’s music, the Fidelio Trio here for the first time set down a collection of his...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW22

Igor Levit: Tristan

Of all Igor Levit’s concept-based albums, this strikes me as the most problematic. He builds it around two substantial items,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW22

Augustin Hadelich: Recuerdos

Concept albums have become the new normal for today’s violin stars and at first glance ‘Recuerdos’ looks like an example...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW22

Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances

‘If you can’t dance it, you can’t play it’, writes Sarah Willis in the booklet note for this second instalment...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW22

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