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PICKARD String Quartets Nos 1 & 5

Here’s further proof that John Pickard (b1962) is one of the most edifying and accomplished composers around. Toccata Classics gives...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2014

LEIFS Quartets Nos 1 - 3

When the Yggsdrasil Quartet’s pioneering disc of Jón Leifs’s three string quartets was released by BIS in 1995, I gave...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

B LANG Monadologie XII

Bernhard Lang’s title might lead you to think classic-period modernism but Monadologie XII turns out to be a composer’s re...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2014

KREISLER Music for Violin

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), one of the most beloved musicians of the last century, is sui generis. In an 80th-birthday tribute...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014

HINDEMITH Viola Sonatas

Most viola players separate Hindemith’s sonatas with piano on disc from the unaccompanied works. Even Kim Kashkashian, whose ECM twofer...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

FAURÉ Piano Trio Op 120 SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No 2

It’s a brave move by the Neave Trio to couple two of the most searing trios in the repertoire. Searing...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014

SUK; DVOŘÁK; SMETANA Piano Trios

Did you know that Josef Suk composed a habanera? Well, neither did I and, in all probability, neither did he....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue:

BRAHMS String Quartet No 2. Clarinet Quintet

Few composers were more fiercely self-critical than Brahms. His habit of destroying works he viewed as unworthy remained with him...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014

JS BACH Trio Sonatas BWV525-530

Some of the contrasts in character between the many movements of these six sonatas that are so easily achieved on...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2014

Ewald Demeyere: Harpsichord Laments of the 17th Century

Ah! Melancholia, aka ‘black bile’, yet socially fashionable in late-16th- and early-17th-century England. And wonder not why John Dowland isn’t...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014

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