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MUSGRAVE Chamber works for Oboe

This recording includes most of Thea Musgrave’s chamber works with oboe, including a recent spate of pieces inspired by the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2013

JOUBERT String Quartets Nos 1-3. Symphony No 2

John Joubert, now in his mid-eighties, came to grim post-war London from South Africa on a Performing Right Society scholarship...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 06/2013

STRAUSS Violin Sonata Op 18 FRANCK Violin Sonata

Augustin Dumay has recorded the Franck Sonata before, with Maria João Pires; his collaboration with Louis Lortie proves to be...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2013

GURNEY Sonata for Violin and Piano ELGAR Sonata for Violin and Piano Op 82

Ivor Gurney’s story is among the saddest. Trained as a Gloucester Cathedral chorister, he became a pupil of Stanford at...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2013

DEBUSSY, SAINT-SAËNS, RAVEL String Quartets

With each new disc the Quatuor Modigliani seem to burgeon. If their Arriaga/Mozart/Schubert programme last year was very fine, this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2013

BRAHMS Violin Sonata No 1 R SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No 1

Brahms wrote his First Violin Sonata in 1878-79, immediately after the Violin Concerto. It was conceived as a sonatina and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2013

BRAHMS String Quartet Op 51/2. Clarinet Quintet Op 115

Few command Brahms’s string quartets the way the Jerusalem do here in Op 51 No 2. Even the most reputable...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013

JS BACH Flutes Sonatas Nos 1, 2 & 4-6

Bach’s six flute sonatas (three with obbligato keyboard, the rest with continuo) come down to us with varied pedigrees, lucidly...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2013

BERLIOZ Les nuits d'été. Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17: Love Scene

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Robin Ticciati have already demonstrated their glowing credentials in Berlioz with last year’s release of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2013

The Red Piano

Ever since New York Times critic Harold Schonberg panned the Yellow River Concerto in 1973 as a ‘rehash of Rachmaninov,...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 05/2012

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