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STAMITZ Trios Op 14 (L'Apothéose)

We’ve met Carl Philipp Stamitz already in this issue – see my Clarinet Focus on page 38. This set of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2023

SHOLDICE The Blue Light

Among the glut of talented Irish composers who’ve come through recently, Garrett Sholdice is one of the standouts. Having been...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2023

SCHUMANN Piano Trios Vol 2

This second volume completes the Kungsbacka’s eminently satisfying survey of Schumann’s music for piano trio. The Third Trio of 1851...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2023

PENDERECKI String Quartets. Clarinet Quartet. String Trio

Penderecki’s works for string quartet cover the whole of his creative life, the first acknowledged one dating from 1960 and...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2023

PANDOLFI MEALLI Violin Sonatas Opp 3 & 4 (Eva Saladin)

This is the second solo album from violinist Eva Saladin. Her first (Glossa) explored 17th-century violin sonatas from the so-called...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2023

MOZART Violin Sonatas (Renaud Capuçon)

When is a violin sonata not a violin sonata? When it’s by Mozart, we’re told, the idea with him, metaphorically...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023

HAAS; JANÁČEK String Quartets (Escher String Quartets)

A piece or performance of Janáček tends to impress us by means of unfiltered expression. To look for hidden depths...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023

DOWLAND Lachrimae (Jadran Duncumb)

All the playing here is on an international level: beautifully balanced, marvellously flexible in phrasing and tempo, with much well-judged...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Fantasiestücke DVOŘÁK String Quartet Op 106

The Takács Quartet’s reputation precedes them. Gramophone Award-winners, resident at London’s Southbank Centre, the University of Colorado Boulder and now...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 09/2023

BRAHMS; REGER Clarinet Quintets

Clarinet quintets by Brahms and Reger make an obvious coupling that should have been taken up more widely but which...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2023

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