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Pohádka: Tales From Prague To Budapest

The idea for this disc arose from these performers’ shared love of Janáček’s music. Laura van der Heijden – 2012’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

Origines & Departs: French Music For Clarinet & Piano

Principal clarinettist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maximiliano Martín joins forces with pianist Scott Mitchell for what is more or...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

SIBELIUS Works for Violin & Piano (Fenella Humphreys)

Fenella Humphreys conveyed tangible identity with Sibelius through her recent accounts of the Violin Concerto and all six Humoresques (8/21),...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022

MOZART Violin Sonatas (Francesca Dego)

Readers may remember the perky pair of Mozart violin concertos Francesco Dego released last year with Roger Norrington and the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022

MENDELSSOHN Violin Sonatas (Alina Ibragimova)

It’s interesting, albeit unsurprising, that Mendelssohn, despite his Violin Concerto in E minor of 1844 sitting as one of the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022

MENDELSSOHN The String Quintets (Doric Quartet, Timothy Ridout)

Mendelssohn was famously acclaimed (by Schumann) as ‘the Mozart of the 19th century’ and (by Liszt) as ‘Bach reborn’. Both...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022

LAMB String Quartets (Jack Quartet)

American-born, Berlin-based Catherine Lamb is a composer of microtonal music (or spectralist, depending on your point of view). In 2020...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2022

ENESCU Piano Quartet No. 1. Piano Trio in A Minor

The first strains of Enescu’s Piano Trio (1916) are evocative of entering a sumptuous, glittering ballroom and being unexpectedly thrust...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 04/2022

BRAHMS String Sextets (Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras)

I hadn’t thought that Brahms’s string sextets offered much opportunity for musical risk-taking but the Belcea Quartet and friends have...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2022

Ensemble Kheops: Brahms, Berg & Zemlinsky

The Belgian-based Ensemble Kheops have always impressed with their fluency of tone, immaculate intonation and ensemble, and the highly sensitive...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

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