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WEINBERG Chamber Music (Kremer, Avdeeva, Dirvanauskaitė)

DG follows its release of Weinberg symphonies (6/19) with one of chamber music featuring members of Kremerata Baltica. Works for...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY; BABAJANIAN Piano Trios

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio is, by any standards, one of the peaks of the repertoire; given the difficulties balancing the three...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Last Three String Quartets (Fitzwilliam Quartet)

Only one of the players on this official 50th-anniversary recording was part of the Fitzwilliam Quartet that recorded the group’s...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Trio D929 (Hamlet Piano Trio)

The booklet is an oddity, describing the wonderful Notturno, D897, as ‘a great rarity’. Presumbly that’s a rarity along the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020

RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH; DENISOV Cello Sonatas

Twentieth-century Russia left cellists spoilt for choice: a player who wants to record a sonata disc can choose from bona...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

PERLE Serenades

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project are quietly building a most impressive library of contemporary American composition. For their latest release,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

MARAIS Deuxième Livre de Pièces de Viole (1701)

Upon reviewing this release, I had every intention of listening to it every day until publication. Six hours of Marin...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2020

CHOPIN Cello Sonata FRANCK Violin Sonata (Capuçon & Wang)

Whether or not Franck originally conceived his Violin Sonata for cello and piano, as now seems probable, the version played...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios (ATOS Trio)

Coincidentally, just prior to hearing these two double-packs, I’d received a reissue from First Hand Records of the First and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete works for Piano & Cello (Ori & Omri Epstein)

Does any body of work by a great composer look more unassuming (superficially, at least) and yet yield more riches...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

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