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SCHUMANN Complete Piano Trios, Quartet & Quintet (Christophe Gaugué, Trio Wanderer)

The music featured here is a tale of extremes, with the piano trios still relatively under-recorded, while the Quintet and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021

MOZART Wind Serenades K361 & 375

Amid a vast array of recordings of Mozart’s lavish Gran Partita, performances on 18th-century instruments are still comparatively rare. Which...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2021

MESSIAEN Quartet For the End of Time ROHDE One Wing (Left Coast Chamber Ensemble)

How many, one wonders, in that first audience of the Quartet for the End of Time in Stalag VIII-A on...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2021

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets, Op 44 (Minguet Quartet)

When the 28-year-old Mendelssohn composed his three Op 44 string quartets during 1837-38, life was going exceedingly well. In his...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2021

LABOR Violin Sonata. Cello Sonata

From the evidence on this and Oliver Triendl and friends’ previous disc of Josef Labor’s chamber music (Capriccio, 12/19), the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2021

BRAHMS Clarinet Sonatas. Vier ernste Gesänge (Julian Bliss)

Back in 2016 I enjoyed the forthright drive of Julian Bliss playing Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet with the Carducci Quartet (Signum,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

If you’ve yet to be persuaded of the merits of the Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand Piano, this bright-eyed...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2021

American Quintets (Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective)

If the aim of a debut is to captivate, showcase talent, lend insight into a curatorial perspective and leave the...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 07/2021

Homage to Bach (Brodsky Quartet)

We’re plunged into the cinematic smokiness of film noir for the opening of this album: Bach’s solo violin music, arranged...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2021

VASKS Musica dolorosa. Musica serena. Musica Appassionata. Klātbūtne

Spatially recorded Vasks from the Munich Radio Orchestra has a particular quality, a parallel immersive throbbing to that associated with...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2021

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