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LASH Filigree (Jack Quartet)

The Jack Quartet continue to set the pace in terms of expanding and promoting the string quartet repertoire, their latest...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 71 & 74 (London Haydn Quartet)

And so the London Haydn Quartet finally arrive in London itself. Haydn wrote the six quartets Op 71 and Op...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2019

BRUCE The North Wind was a Woman

Three works by the US-born British composer David Bruce immediately alert you to both his qualities (freshness, clarity, impulsive response...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2019

JS BACH Sonatas for Viola and Harpsichord (Tamestit & Suzuki)

The unexpected gem of this album is the non-Sonata offering from Cantata No 5, Wo soll ich fliehen hin. The...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW2019

British Tone Poems Vol 2 (Gamba)

The biggest surprise about this second disc in Rumon Gamba’s series of British tone poems wasn’t the fact that it...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2019

Fabiola Kim: 1939

The 1930s saw a larger number of front-rank violin concertos than any other decade, making Fabiola Kim’s collating of three...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019

WILLIAMS Across the Stars (Anne-Sophie Mutter)

The Yellow Label is pushing out the boat for John Williams, with ‘Across the Stars’ following in quick succession from...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: AW2019

STRAUSS Don Quixote. Cello Sonata

As I noted when reviewing violinist Arabella Steinbacher’s tribute to him earlier this year (Pentatone, 1/19), the output of Richard...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2019

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2 (Dong Hyek Lim)

The very opening of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto is a good indicator of how the pianist views the piece and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2019

G PROKOFIEV Saxophone Concerto; Bass Drum Concerto

It seems impossible to discuss Gabriel Prokofiev’s music without some reference being made to his famous grandfather, Sergey Prokofiev. Yet...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2019

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