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MOZART; MAHLER; BRAHMS Piano Quartets (Skride Piano Quartet)

‘You English make Brahms so cold! In reality he was such a human person’, said his former pupil Ilona Eibenschütz....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2019

BORODIN; SHOSTAKOVICH; WEINBERG String Quartets

The young Chinese musicians of the Dragon Quartet here follow up their first disc for Channel Classics (of Schubert and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2019

JS BACH Violin Sonatas (Capuçon, Fray)

A decade on from Swing, Sing & Think – Bruno Monsaingeon’s film that follows David Fray recording Bach’s keyboard concertos,...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2019

ZEMLINSKY; RACHMANINOV; ARENSKY Piano Trios

The Smetana Trio is one of those groups in the grand Czech tradition; this latest line-up features three formidably fine...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

ANTHEIL Complete Violin Music Vol 1 (Alessandro Fagiuoli)

Antheil composed his first three violin sonatas in 1923 24, while he was living and working in Europe. They are...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

HANDEL; LEO Rinaldo (Premiere of the 1718 Naples version)

Extravagantly premiered at the Queen’s Theatre, Haymarket, in 1711, Rinaldo made Handel’s reputation in London and received more stagings, at...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2019

Lise Davidsen: Strauss and Wagner

It’s been a long time since a singer has generated as much buzz as the Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, Gramophone’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2019

An English Coronation 1902-1953 (Gabrieli Consort)

On his tireless voyage of ceremonial and liturgical reconstruction, Paul McCreesh’s 20th-century coronation anthology is arguably his most ambitious and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2019

CHAUSSON Poème de l'Amour et de la mer. Symphony Op 20

A work that tends to bring out the best in the singers who have tackled it, Poème de l’amour et...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2019

SCHUBERT Sonatas & Impromptus (Schiff)

Here’s an analogy for András Schiff’s second disc in his survey of Schubert’s late works on his Brodmann fortepiano. Imagine...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2019

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