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The Naming of Birds: British Wind Quintets

The concept behind this intriguing, delightfully played programme is the development of the British wind quintet decade by decade from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

The Mandolin in London

After a wide-ranging exploration, over a number of consistently fascinating releases, of the baroque mandolin in Italy (with a brief...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024

Home: American String Quartets

The Miró Quartet’s new album, ‘Home’, offers a discourse on the themes thrown up by the title: a nation’s people...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024

Avec elles: Arrieu, Bonis, Borel, Chaminade, Debussy, Poulenc

The French have long been in an intimate relationship with the flute. Think of that siren call languorously opening Debussy’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024

WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 4 (Arcadia Quartet)

In this fourth instalment of Weinberg string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet tellingly juxtapose one of his greatest works with two...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024

SORABJI Vocal and Chamber Works

His output may be dominated by large-scale works for piano but Kaikhosru Sorabji wrote vocal and chamber pieces of relative...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024

SENFTER Chamber Music

When reviewing Kilian Herold and the Armida Quartet’s recording of Johanna Senfter’s fine Clarinet Quintet, Richard Whitehouse hoped ‘that more...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Schubert Reimagined (Josephine Knight)

Adaptations of Schubert range from faithful transcriptions to more intricate amplifications and radical realisations such as Berio’s Rendering. Since the...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 08/2024

Tempus omnia vicit: Purcell, Schubert, Josquin

International music competitions gifting a recording as part of their first-prize package may be increasingly common but few competition-label partnerships...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2024

RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonatas (Dóra Kokas)

According to cellist Dóra Kokas, ‘Hypnosis’ (this programme’s title) refers to the hypnotherapy Rachmaninov underwent in order to overcome a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024

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