Search the Reviews Database

SCHUBERT Octet in F Major (Wigmore Soloists)

Schubert may have taken Beethoven’s Septet as the model for his Octet but he filled the template with his own...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

PLEYEL Prussian Quartets Nos 10-12 (Pleyel Quartet Köln)

Ignace Joseph Pleyel’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets were composed during the mid-1780s and published in four sets of three in 1787 with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

KORNGOLD Chamber Music

While Korngold’s 21st-century rehabilitation as a serious composer seems well and truly complete, it’s fair to say that his chamber...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2021

GIPPS 'Dedication' Clarinet chamber music

The oboe was Ruth Gipps’s main instrument (she studied with Leon Goossens and was at one time principal oboist in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021

FAGERLUND Oceano

BIS continues to explore the Finnish composer Sebastian Fagerlund (b1972) with this overview of chamber music from the past 15...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2021

DRAESEKE String Quartets Vol 2 (Constanze Quartet)

Who is Felix Draeseke, you may ask. It would seem upon closer inspection that Draeseke (1835-1913) is perhaps the most...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2021

BEETHOVEN String Quartets, Op 18 Nos 1-3 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)

Soloist-led string quartets on disc stretch from the Rose, Busch and Paganini Quartets (the latter led by the brilliant Polish...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Op 30 (Christian Tetzlaff)

‘How greatly you wrong me’: it’s extraordinary to think that Beethoven completed his Op 30 so soon before the anguished...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2021

ARNOLD A Centenary Celebration

If the Malcolm Arnold centenary hasn’t exactly unleashed a torrent of new recordings, that’s probably because few British composers of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2021

Shani Diluka: The Proust Album

Whether celebrating his 150th birthday this past July or anticipating the centennial of his death next November, Marcel Proust has...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2021

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---