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WATKINS Chamber Music and Works for String Orchestra
Just short of his half-century, Huw Watkins has long been active as both composer and pianist, and on disc an...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024
SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 9 & 15 (Carducci Quartet)
The third volume of the Carducci Quartet’s Shostakovich cycle pairs two of the mightiest of the 15. Both the five-movement...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2024
SCHUMANN; TANEYEV Piano Quintets
I became obsessed with Sergey Taneyev’s Piano Quintet (1915) after hearing Pletnev, Repin, Gringolts, Imai and Harrell’s incendiary account (DG,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024
MANZIARLY Chamber Works
Born in Kharkiv, trained in France and Switzerland, spiritually inspired in India and harboured by the United States, Marcelle de...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024
FINNISSY 'Alternative Readings'
This remarkable sequence of compositions by Michael Finnissy (b1943) has several special qualities. The framing performances of different versions of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024
'Fauré authentique'
Just as the musical world has moved on from the polarity of authentic versus modern performance, here comes the A-word...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2024
BRAHMS Piano Trios (Trio Sõra)
I thoroughly enjoyed Trio Sōra’s nimble, clear-textured traversal of Beethoven’s six piano trios (Naïve, 12/20), although I found a few...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024
Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol 1
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, the brainchild of violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster, has justified its name in several...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024
BORTKIEWICZ; KOSENKO; SKORYK 'Ukrainian Masters'
Only the first panel of this absorbing triptych is advertised as a first recording, but Viktor Kosenko’s Sonata of 1927...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024
VIVALDI Le Quattro Stagioni (Julien Chauvin; Luka Faulisi)
‘Yes, “another” recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons!’ cries Le Concert de la Loge’s violinist director Julien Chauvin at the top...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 PÄRT De profundis (Storgårds)
Shostakovich’s Thirteenth is sonically the most austere of all his symphonies: it features a bass soloist, a male choir and...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2024
SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Janowski)
Reviewing Marek Janowski’s Beethoven cycle on Pentatone (2/21), Andrew Farach-Colton drew attention to its consistently clear articulation, ‘striking lack of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024
Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru
If ‘Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru’ initially sounds like the title of a gangsta rap album, nothing could be further...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2024
LIGETI Concertos and Chamber Music (Bleuse)
In the year of his centenary and with its own half-century fast approaching, it made sense for Ensemble Intercontemporain to...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024
LACHENMANN My Melodies
Lachenmann’s title is a playful tease in the spirit of the toy frogs who pop up in his 1983 ensemble...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024
HOWARD Orchestral Works (Seal)
There has not previously been a release devoted to Dani Howard (b1993). Fluent across the broad range of genres (witness...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024
HAYDN 'Haydn 2032, Vol 15: La Reine' (Antonini)
Queens and empresses are the linking factor in this latest addition to Giovanni Antonini’s Haydn cycle. Some connections, though, are...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2024
GORDON 'The Impermanence of Things'
Now in his early 60s, British composer Michael Zev Gordon shares with his near-contemporaries George Benjamin and Julian Anderson an...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024
ELFMAN Percussion Concerto. Wunderkammer (Colin Currie)
Danny Elfman’s concerto for orchestra Wunderkammer was written for the National Youth Orchestra and clearly designed to stretch and stimulate...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2024
DVOŘÁK; SCHUMANN; SCHREKER 'Eastbound'
Older readers may associate the Lucerne Festival Strings with Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner but under Australian-born Daniel Dodds the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2024
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