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Handel at Home Vol 2: Total Eclipse
It’s one thing to say that you’re recording a programme of music fit for an 18th-century evening’s domestic music-making. It’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
BOCCHERINI String Quintets
The Karski Quartet, founded in Belgium in 2018, take their name from Jan Karski, a Second World War resistance fighter,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2024
BLISS; FERGUSON; HOLLOWAY Octets & Clarinet Quintet
The larger chamber combinations of wind and strings – one thinks of Beethoven’s Septet, Schubert’s Octet and the nonets of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Antje Weithaas)
I found much to admire in the first instalment of Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon’s survey of the Beethoven violin...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 1 (Doric String Quartet)
The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN String Quartets opp 74 & 130
The six Op 18 Quartets now under their belts, the Chiaroscuro Quartet have chosen for the next instalment of their...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
JS BACH Viola da Gamba Sonatas
Yet another album of Bach’s sonatas for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord, I hear you sigh. Yet gambist Andrea...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2024
United Strings of Europe: through the night
Just three years have passed since the United Strings of Europe released their first recording (2/21), but the London-based group...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems
Name 15 French symphonic poems. Assuming Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre and Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice head your list, where next? After...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2024
SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Herreweghe)
These interpretations are not markedly different from Herreweghe’s period-instrument recording with the Champs-Élysées Orchestra on his first Schumann symphony cycle....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
SCHMIDT Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Berman)
Although still rarely encountered in the concert hall, Franz Schmidt’s symphonies are increasingly well represented on record, this being at...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Noseda)
Not quite 20 years since the LSO recorded its last Prokofiev symphony cycle in a concentrated burst of performances at...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2024
MUSTONEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Mustonen)
It is a curious feature of Olli Mustonen the composer that, rather like Stravinsky, he has written relatively little for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
MOZART Symphonies Nos 29 & 40 (Emelyanychev)
This account of Mozart’s Symphony No 40 follows Il Pomo d’Oro’s recording of No 41, the Jupiter (4/23); no doubt...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024
'Mozart 1791'
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is most commonly coupled on recordings with the Clarinet Quintet or with a complementary concerto by another...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 7 & 10 (Cummings)
The latest stop on Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music’s belated traversal of Mozart’s complete output for keyboard...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 5 (Emelyanychev)
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra made a wise choice when it elected Maxim Emelyanychev as its principal conductor. He’s a fine...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2024
MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Vänskä)
The Eighth is often the Mahler symphony that seems to inspire conductors who fall short in the others. That’s a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2024
LEIVISKÄ Orchestral Works Vol 1 (Stasevska)
The ever-inquiring BIS label begins another series devoted to the orchestral output of Helvi Leiviskä (1902 82). Variously composer, critic...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024
KUUSISTO Symphony Op 39. Pictured Within. Birthday Variations for M.C.B
An odd coupling, but you can just about get on board with the idea of two large pieces celebrating a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2024
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