FRANÇAIX Chamber Music for Winds

The chamber music of Jean Françaix is unaccountably neglected and it is opportune that MDG have decided to reissue the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 09/2012

MENDELSSOHN String Quintet No 2 DVORAK Piano Quintet No 2

The Aronowitz Ensemble consists of seven talented young musicians in the ‘useful’ combination of piano and string sextet. They have...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2012

Chausson Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op.21

It is unassailable that, despite his lack of prolificness, Chausson’s music is always intelligent and engaging as well as being...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2012

Brahms Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3

To recreate Fanny Davies’s description, ‘Brahms’s manner of interpretation was free, very elastic and expansive; his phrasing was notable in...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2012

Bloch; Janacek; Ravel Violin Sonatas

It’s always fun to play spot-the-link with recital discs, and with this cornucopia from Danish husband-and-wife ensemble Christina Åstrand and...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2012

Tavener The Protecting Veil; Thrinos. Britten Cello Suite No 3

First impressions of The Protecting Veil are of a consonant, major-key sweetness that could portend a pastoral after the style...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/1992

Berg Chamber Music with Piano

Gunnar Berg (1909-89) was a proponent of total serialism, apparently the first in Denmark, who unsurprisingly attended Messiaen’s composition classes...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2012

Beethoven; Shostakovich String Quartets

While the composer himself was reluctant to break faith with the technically less proficient Beethoven Quartet, concert-goers and record buyers...

Reviewed in issue 06/2012

WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder. Tristan und Isolde Prelude and Liebestod

This is a truly riveting recital of Wagner from Varady (magnificent singing) and Fischer- Dieskau. Varady's reading of the Wesendonk...

Reviewed in issue

Rachmaninov (The) Bells, Op. 35. Three Russian Songs, Op. 41. Spring, Op. 20

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 01/2012