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COUPERIN Les Nations REBEL Les Caracteres de la danse

The superb early-18th-century chamber music of François Couperin and Jean-Féry Rebel – and a number of their French contemporaries –...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2014

STRAVINSKY Petrushka BRAHMS 16 Waltzes PIAZZOLLA 4 Tangos

Pardon the cliché, but here’s a husband-and-wife piano duo who make beautiful music together. In Stravinsky’s duet reduction of Petrushka,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The B flat minor Concerto has been recorded so many times that you may justifiably ask if we really need...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014

BOWEN Piano Trio. Clarinet Sonata. Rhapsody Trio

The revival in fortune (in the recording studio, at any rate) of the consistently warm-hearted and delectably polished music of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014

HINDEMITH String Trio No 2 BOULANGER 2 Pieces for Piano Trio

I have a confession to make. Hindemith’s music really makes me angry. Not just mildly irritable but full-blown chucking-scores-at-the-speakers annoyed....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014

BIBER Fidicinium sacro-profanum, Sonatas I-XII

First-class recordings of Biber’s Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas are hardly rarities but there are fewer sets of Fidicinium sacro-profanum (Les Plaisirs...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014

BERG Lyric Suite SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

Composers can increase exposure – and income – by promoting orchestral versions of chamber compositions. But orchestras usually employ conductors;...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos 6 & 7

Nannette Streicher’s new piano was a six-octave godsend for Beethoven. And the next year, 1808, he ran the full gamut...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2014

ARENSKY Piano Trios

This is the seventh in Hyperion’s series of Arensky discs, beautifully erasing Rimsky-Korsakov’s write-off (for him, Arensky was doomed to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014

Jean-Christophe Spinosi: Miroirs

When Jean-Christophe Spinosi backed away from his specialty as a Vivaldi conductor a few years ago, one never envisioned him...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014

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