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JS BACH Goldberg Variations

Two opinions: from Richard Egarr that the Goldberg Variations ‘are ultimately symbiotic with the sound world of the harpsichord’; from...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2014

Octuorissimo: Le Maître & l'Elève

The music on this disc is rarely heard – the most mainstream is by Shostakovich, but not the quartets one...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2014

New World Quartets

Dvořák’s American is the obvious candidate for a disc of New World quartets but the Brodsky have cast their net...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2014

In 27 Pieces : Hilary Hahn Encores

There may be plenty of new music being written for violin but not on a small enough scale to present...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2014

Early and Late

New/Old or Folk/Art mixtures have been a staple diet for contemporary ensembles ever since the 1960s. The three musicians who...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2014

CASKEN Deadly Pleasures BRITTEN Six Metamorphoses after Ovid

The title of this debut disc from the Counterpoise ensemble comes from its opening work, John Casken’s Deadly Pleasures, a...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2014

TELEMANN Complete Recorder Sonatas

The booklet essay for this complete survey of all six Telemann sonatas for recorder and basso continuo observes correctly that...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 13-15 SCHNITTKE String Quartet No 3

With so many Shostakovich quartet cycles in progress, the sequence must by now have overtaken Bartók’s as the 20th century’s...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2014

RADIGUE Naldjorlak I, II & III

For 30 years Éliane Radigue devoted all her energies to creating electronic music until, one epiphanic night in 2004, she...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2014

LIGETI String Quartets Nos 1 & 2. Cello Sonata

Thinking about the Keller Quartet’s recent pairing of György Ligeti’s quartets with Samuel Barber’s Adagio for strings, I couldn’t help...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2014

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