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RINCK Chamber Music Vols 1 & 2 (Trio Parnassus)

Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770-1846) was a celebrated organist in his day and is best known for the music he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2021

MUNKTELL Violin Sonata. Dix Mélodies. Piano Trio

Helena Munktell (1852-1919) studied singing and piano in Stockholm, Vienna and Paris, was elected to the Swedish Royal Academy in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2021

HOLMBOE String Quartets, Vol 1 (Nightingale String Quartet)

Holmboe’s First and Third Quartets (both completed in 1949) first appeared on LP in the 1950s, recorded respectively by the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2021

BRAGA SANTOS Chamber Music Vols 2 & 3

Joly Braga Santos (1924-88) was a figure of exceptional importance in Portuguese music, as anyone who has heard the first...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas Op 5 (Raphael Pidoux)

This recording has two claims on your attention. It’s the latest release in Harmonia Mundi’s ‘Stradivari’ project showcasing historic instruments...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2021

JS BACH Sonatas for Viola and Harpsichord BWV 1027-1029 (Marie Stockmarr Becker)

The album’s opener, Bach’s Sonata in G, BWV1027, is lovely. Marie Stockmarr Becker and Ilaria Macedonio perform the Adagio with...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2021

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 1-10 (Berliner Philharmoniker)

While the Berlin Philharmonic’s Bruckner tradition began to be documented in the 78 era, with Jascha Horenstein conducting the Seventh...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021

WILSON Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Macdonald)

Born to British parents in the USA in 1927, Thomas Wilson moved to the United Kingdom as an infant and...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2021

TCHAIKOVKSY Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Nelsons)

The prime purpose of this box-set is undoubtedly to document Andris Nelsons’s accounts of Tchaikovsky’s last three (numbered) symphonies taped...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

SCRIABIN Symphony No 2. Le Poème de l'Extase (Katayenko)

For some years Dmitry Kitaenko has been revisiting his core repertoire, often in the company of the Gürzenich Orchestra, which...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2021

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