Mozart String Quartets K387 & K421

The six quartets that Mozart dedicated to Haydn are among his finest, which is saying something, and after he had...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Vaughan Williams String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Phantasy Quintet

Why is Vaughan Williams’s Second Quartet not part of the international chamber repertory? Played as eloquently as this it seems...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/2001

Telemann Twelve Fantasias

Telemann's knowledge of woodwind instruments was considerable. He played most if not all of them himself and he understood their...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1991

Schumann Work for Clarinet and Piano

Here is a very effective and enjoyable clarinet recital of pieces that were never originally intended for the clarinet –...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2003

Martinú Suite Concertante

It was Samuel Dushkin, the violinist for whom Stravinsky wrote his Concerto and Duo Concertant, who commissioned these two works....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2002

Janácek Glagolitic Mass; Strauss, R Der Bürger als Edelmann

Klaus Tennstedt was already seriously ill when these two performances were recorded, and already becoming something of the legend the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/2007

Barber; Gershwin Piano Concertos

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1993

Brahms String Quintets

Brahms’s two string quintets fall somewhere between his earlier quartets and sextets in that their contrapuntal workings are better oiled...

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

Marsh Symphonies

John Marsh (1752-1828) was a characteristically 18th-century English phenomenon: a self-styled “gentleman composer” and “amateur of fortune” who originally studied...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2008

Mozart Piano Concertos

“The controversial Pletnev” boasts the latest marketing material from Virgin; but no more controversial, surely, than Mozart himself when writing...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1996