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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

This Sceptered Isle: Wood, Holst, Vaughan Williams and Elgar

One of the doyens of British light music, Yorkshire-born Haydn Wood (1882-1959) completed his Mannin Veen (Dear Isle of Man:...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2022

Symphonies of the Bach Family

Ever-enterprising in his exploration of all things Bach, Reinhard Goebel here alights on rarities from virtually every 18th-century member of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2022

Horizon 10

The initial, indeed overwhelming impression that this three-SACD collection of recent works played by (and many written for) the Royal...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

WINTERBERG Symphony No 1. Piano Concerto No 1 (Jonathan Powell)

Hans Winterberg (1901 91) was interned in Terezín by the Nazis. Unlike so many of his Jewish compatriots there, Winterberg...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Boult)

The veteran Adrian Boult at the helm of the orchestra he founded and painstakingly moulded into a top-class outfit –...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2022

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Järvi)

Paavo Järvi’s Tchaikovsky cycle with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra has come to an end. The last two symphonies, Nos 1...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 08/2022

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