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MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Åstrand; Teyssier; Salo; Thomsen)

With some three dozen versions currently available, Quatuor pour la fin du temps is the most recorded of Messiaen’s larger...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2022

HOLMBOE String Quartets, Vol 2 (Nightingale String Quartet)

The Nightingale Quartet’s first volume (3/21) opened with Holmboe’s first published quartet, Op 46, and this second concludes with his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

HILLER Piano Quartet No 3. Piano Quintet Op 156

Ferdinand Hiller (1811 85) is one of those composers known more as a name in the biographies of others than...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022

FRANCK Complete Chamber Music

‘Pater Seraphicus’ was the nickname bestowed on César Franck by his devoted pupils, the so-called bande à Franck. Genteel sensibilities...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2022

BRANCO; RAVEL; VILLA-LOBOS Violin Sonatas (Bruno Monteiro)

In programming terms alone, your interest may be piqued by this distinctly off-piste combination of violin sonatas from Portuguese violinist...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2022

BRAHMS; FINZI Music for Clarinet and Piano (Helen Habershon)

The thought of pairing Brahms and Finzi hadn’t occurred to me before but it makes perfect sense, particularly with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022

BRAHMS Serenades (Linos Ensemble)

Brahms was careful not to leave much if any evidence of his compositional struggles, thus there’s no score of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022

BERG; SCHOENBERG; WEBERN String Quartets

Anyone still thinking of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern as soulless serialists will be surprised by the feverish romanticism that burns...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2022

BEETHOVEN String Quartet Nos 15 & 16 (Ehnes Quartet)

I have a friend who cannot abide ‘late’ Beethoven and I’d hazard a guess that the five-movement Quartet in A...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2022

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas, Op 102. Bagatelles, Opp 119 & 126 (Andreas Staier, Roel Dieltiens)

Occasionally a historically informed performance comes along that alters your perception of a work not just on modern instruments but...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2022

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