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BERKELEY; BRAHMS; LESHNOFF Horn Trios

I vividly recall being bowled over by my first encounter with Lennox Berkeley’s eloquent Horn Trio through David Pyatt’s superlative...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2023

BERG; SCHOENBERG 'Transfigurations'

Collections of Second Viennese School arrangements have proliferated during recent years, and here Het Collectief combine the tried with the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2023

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Consort – III

What a wonderful surprise. I had assumed that with Vol 2 of their ‘Well-Tempered Consort’ done and dusted, Phantasm had...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023

Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius & Elgar - Music for Strings

This repertoire calls for the warmth and resonance that are hallmarks of the ‘Chandos sound’, and St Augustine’s Kilburn serves...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2023

Raphaela Gromes: Femmes

‘Femmes’ is Raphaela Gromes’s response to a friend’s suggestion that she record an album of music by women. It’s an...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2023

Altissima: Works For High Baroque Trumpet (Josh Cohen)

Programmes dedicated to the skilled art of solo ‘clarino’ playing – the valveless high trumpet of the Baroque – are...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2023

WILMS The Piano Concertos, Vol 2 (Ronald Brautigam)

For Brahms, the towering example of Beethoven presented an intimidating challenge. Half a century earlier, German-born, Dutch-domiciled Johann Wilhelm Wilms...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (Liss. Sanderling)

Two accounts of this great symphony – some would argue (not me) Shostakovich’s greatest – neither about to shake up...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023

C & R SCHUMANN Piano Concertos (Beatrice Rana)

Prodigy Clara Schumann (Wieck at the time) was 14 when she wrote the third movement of her Concerto, and 16...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2023

SCHUMANN Symphony Nos 3 & 4 (Alsop)

‘Subtle’ is the adjective used on the inlay card for this concluding volume of Mahler’s reorchestrations of Schumann’s symphonies. Well,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2023

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