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REICH The String Quartets (Mivos Quartet)

Tradition and innovation have always forged strong alliances in Steve Reich’s music, and his three string quartets illustrate this perhaps...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2023

POULENC Sextuor. Trio. Abade. Suite Francaise

Members of the redoubtable Quintette Moraguès recorded a good deal in the first decade of the present century. Michel Moraguès’s...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2023

HAYDN; LEITH 'Big House'

The Ruisi Quartet waited 10 years before making their debut recording. When they finally got around to it, at a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2023

FARRINGTON 'Classical Changes'

In the Coronation year of 1953, Trinidad-born pianist Winifred Atwell recorded Let’s Have a Party, a right royal knees-up of...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2023

DILLON Emblemata: Carnival. Tanz/haus

The ultra-cerebral stereotype of the New Complexity often feels like a bit of a chimera. Blame all those images of...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2023

BRAHMS Piano Trios, Opp 36 & 87 (Greenwich Trio)

While there’s a train of thought these days that full-fat Brahms is bad for you, that tradition is alive and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023

BEETHOVEN The Late Quartets (Calidore String Quartet)

The Calidore Quartet prime their tonal canvas in warm shades: nothing so bland as magnolia, but more opulent than the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. Firebird (Mäkelä)

In taking these momentous scores back to their Parisian roots Klaus Mäkelä, as expected, engages his keen ears and sense...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023

STRAUSS 'Santtu conducts Strauss'

‘We started big’, says Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s welcome note in the booklet about his first season at the helm of the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 8-10 (Petrenko)

Recorded during lockdown, this trio of Shostakovich symphonies chimes quite dramatically with the mood of that time and speaks volumes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023

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