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MOZART The Prussian Quartets (Chiaroscuro Quartet)

It’s incredible to think that Mozart’s three ‘Prussian’ Quartets – his final statements in the genre, written for amateur cellist...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2023

MOZART; SCHUMANN; BRUCH; STRAVINSKY Clarinet Trios

What a little miracle Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio (1786) is: just under 20 minutes of his finest music for his three...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

MARAIS Folies d'Espagne. La Rêveuse

I adore this recording. Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud bring us the music of Marin Marais – on cello and...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2023

LOURIÉ Chamber and Instrumental Music, Vol 1: Works with Wind Instruments

Arthur Lourié (1891-1966) is an endlessly fascinating composer. Like Stravinsky, whose friend (and in some ways mentor) he was, his...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2023

DUTILLEUX; HOUGH; RAVEL String Quartets (Takács Quartet)

Shostakovich aside, few post-war string quartets can have made more of an impact on record than Dutilleux’s Ainsi le nuit....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2023

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 (Leonard Elschenbroich)

‘Technological process in some cases has a fruit-like cycle’, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich writes in the booklet note, ‘and we found...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2023

Les nuits de Paris

Imagine uprooting the traditional New Year’s Day concert from Vienna’s Musikverein and transporting it to the Opéra-Comique in Paris. And...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2023

B A ZIMMERMANN 'Recomposed'

Wergo’s long-term Bernd Alois Zimmermann Edition now continues with this ambitious ‘Recomposed’ project, placing six of his own works within...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Piano Quintet. Fantasia on the Old 104th

Top billing on the booklet cover goes to the ambitious Fantasia on the Old 104th, conceived for the same forces...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2023

TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings. Souvenir de Florence, Andante Cantabile (Azkoul)

The Souvenir de Florence and Serenade for Strings are two of Tchaikovsky’s sunniest works and have often been paired on...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2023

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