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DEBUSSY String Quartet. Sonatas (The Nash Ensemble)

It’s 60 years since Amelia Freedman and a group of fellow students at the Royal Academy of Music established The...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2025

BEETHOVEN The Early Quartets (Calidore Quartet)

My usual policy of never reading booklet notes before I write about an album under consideration paid off handsomely in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2025

BARTÓK String Quartet No 4 LIGETI String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

Anyone who encountered the Marmen Quartet in a superb performance of Robert Simpson’s First Quartet at a Proms chamber recital...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2025

Exile

Expect the unexpected from Patricia Kopatchinskaja: her latest release elides the (relatively) unfamiliar with the (relatively) familiar in a consideration...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2025

SMETANA Ma Vlast. Symphonic Works (Popelka)

Supraphon’s booklet interview finds Jindřich Bálek chatting to Petr Popelka (the gifted Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Prague...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2025

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 94, 95, 98 & 99 (Järvi)

'This could well be a Haydn series to relish’, wrote Mark Pullinger of the first volume of Paavo Järvi’s ‘London’...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2025

MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Rattle)

This is shaping up to be an extraordinary Mahler cycle with an extraordinary orchestra. Their possibilities are seemingly limitless –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2025

WEBER Der Freischütz (Mazzola)

Content warning: this Freischütz contains entirely rewritten dialogue, added music, cut music, an additional character, reorderings and general scenes of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2025

VERDI Ernani (Mazzola)

Verdi’s Ernani? Or the Brad Pitt movie Fight Club? This new DVD sounds like the former but looks like the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2025

BOITO Nerone (Cilluffo)

Verdi’s librettist on Otello and Falstaff, Arrigo Boito was also a noted composer. His most famous work, Mefistofele, is still...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2025

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