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GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN String Quartets Nos 7-10

Reviewing Volume 1 of this cycle (5/19), Andrew Mellor welcomed the ‘tight, no-nonsense and considered performances’ by the Nordic Quartet....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024

GIPPS Piper of Dreams: Chamber Music for Oboe

No doubt as to the standout item on this latest volume from Chandos devoted to the music of Ruth Gipps...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024

FELDMAN Complete Music for Cello and Piano (Stephen Marotto)

The title of Patterns in a Chromatic Field invites a visual analogy to the American school of abstract expressionism that...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024

BRAHMS String Quintets (Gringolts Quartet, Lilli Maijala)

To tackle Op 111 first, one of the truly great string quintets, the upper strings’ pulsing semiquavers (cast in 9/8...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 3 (Sitkovetsky Trio)

Just as in his symphonies, Beethoven found a new character, a new mode of expression for each of his piano...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2024

BARTÓK; DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintets

It’s always good to see the music of Ernst von Dohnányi paired with his more celebrated contemporaries. There was more...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2024

Our Gilded Veins

Reflections ‘on memory, loss and healing’ by composers ‘with strong links to Scotland’ – which perhaps explains the involvement of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024

VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Alfia Bakieva)

Just when you think that the well of new angles on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has truly run dry, along comes...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2024

SILVESTROV Symphony for Violin & Orchestra 'Widmung' (Lyndon-Gee)

Composed in 1984, the Postludium for piano and orchestra was among the first scores to bring Silvestrov’s name to listeners...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Nézet-Séguin)

Writing on Nézet-Séguin’s recording, with the Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony (12/15), David Gutman commented: ‘As followers of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024

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