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MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte (Michael Barenboim)
Hackles might rise at the idea of tampering with Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, those piano gems from that fecund period...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
KORNGOLD String Sextet TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence
Funny, the unconscious prejudices one acquires. Not that I’ve ever thought of the Nash Ensemble as anything other than excellent;...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024
FAURÉ; GRIEG; R STRAUSS '1883'
Two sonatas written in 1883, Strauss’s the work of a precociously gifted 16-year-old who would up his game four years...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024
EASTMAN Femenine
The rise of Julius Eastman as one of the most significant composers of his generation remains one of the most...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
DVOŘÁK; GIDDENS; PRICE String Quartets 'But Not My Soul'
Florence Price’s Second Quartet (1935) may not, quite, reach the level of Dvořák’s celebrated American Quartet but it is a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2024
CRUMB 'Complete Crumb Edition, Vol 21'
Long in the making perhaps but, 42 years and 20 releases on, Bridge has fulfilled its plan for a Complete...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2024
COOPER Oculus
For evidence of the blurred boundaries that keep shifting between music for the concert hall and compositions written for film...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
BUSONI Violin Sonatas (Nicola Bignami)
In his June 1937 editorial, Compton Mackenzie remarked that Elgar once told him that he considered Busoni ‘the greatest musical...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024
BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Rachel Kolly)
On first hearing, this new set of Brahms violin sonatas by Rachel Kolly and Christian Chamorel makes a curious impression:...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024
BRAHMS String Sextets (Grand Trio Vilnius)
Piano trios have cause to be grateful that Brahms’s loyal friend Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903) did such a thoroughly professional job...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024
BRAHMS The String Quartets (Quatuor Agate)
The namesake of France’s Quatuor Agate is an ornamental gemstone. ‘Agate’ also alludes to the group’s affinity for Brahms, whose...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2024
BRAHMS Cello Sonatas SCHUMANN Fünf Stücke im Volkston (Christian Poltera)
Rob Cowan recently remarked that Casals and Horszowski make Brahms’s Second Cello Sonata ‘sound truly the Eroica of cello sonatas’...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2024
Beethoven for Three
My colleague Andrew Farach-Colton ended his review of the previous volume, of the Pastoral and the Piano Trio Op 1...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Piano Concerto No 2 (Kirill Gerstein)
For such a starry orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic has a pretty threadbare Rachmaninov catalogue. Their only symphony cycle was with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
Neujahrskonzert 2024
Across the years the New Year’s Day concert from Vienna’s Musikverein has been conducted by the crème de la crème...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
Metamorphosis
Edmund Finnis describes his Hymn (after Byrd) – an arrangement for string orchestra of the fourth movement of his First...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
YSAŸE Violin Concerto in E minor. Poeme concertant (Philippe Graffin)
Two world premieres from Eugène Ysaÿe might seem like a bonanza, but that’s what we have here: a full-scale violin...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024
KALKBRENNER; TELLEFSEN Piano Concertos (Howard Shelley)
There are lovely moments in Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen’s two piano concertos. The First (1847 48), Jeremy Nicholas tells us...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 (A Jansons)
Back in September 1971 I attended a concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall by what was then the Leningrad Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Chauhan)
Like the preceding volume (8/23), this further exploration of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral works and operas is a delight for the audiophile....
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 04/2024
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