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FUCHS; KORNAUTH Works for viola and piano (Litton Dup)

Lockdown clearly had some consolations. Andrew Litton describes how, with their international careers temporarily on hold, he and his wife...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022

DVORÁK String Quartets Vol 4 (Vogler Quartett)

Brahms supposedly destroyed 20 string quartets before publishing his first. His friend Dvořák took a slightly less ruthless approach. Although...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022

BRAHMS Three Sonatas (Michael Collins)

This is Michael Collins’s third recording of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonatas. The first was made with Mikhail Pletnev and coupled with...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022

BOLCOM Trio For Horn, Violin and Piano. Suite No 2 For Solo Violin

The two works on this album, appearing on record for the first time, are typical of the stylistic versality of...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2022

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 10, 11 12 & 14 (Ehnes Quartet)

This is big, traditional playing, expressive and full-bodied, with plentiful vibrato and where each quartet member enters into a communal...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2022

TELEMANN Viola Concertos, Overtures & Fantasias (Antoine Tamestit)

Some nice moments almost tie together the performance of the Ouverture burlesque on this all-Telemann album. The Akademie für Alte...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022

STAMITZ Four Symphonies (Willens)

Carl Stamitz (1745-1801) is not the most historically famous composer in his family – that would be his father Johann,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2022

SCHUBERT Complete Symphonies & Fragments (Gaigg)

This set of Schubert’s symphonies arrives just in time for the 225th anniversary of the composer’s birth. While a good...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2022

RÖNTGEN Symphonies Nos 7, 11, 12, 14, 22-24 (Porcelijn)

Here’s a tale of two Röntgens. On the first CD, we have the Seventh of the composer’s 24 symphonies, composed...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022

RESPIGHI, STRAUSS; SCHOENBERG 'Métamorphoses Nocturnes'

Something of a revelation, this disc, this programme – and, for the creator of Appassionato, Mathieu Herzog (late of the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2022

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