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ENESCU Piano Quartet No. 1. Piano Trio in A Minor

The first strains of Enescu’s Piano Trio (1916) are evocative of entering a sumptuous, glittering ballroom and being unexpectedly thrust...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 04/2022

BRAHMS String Sextets (Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras)

I hadn’t thought that Brahms’s string sextets offered much opportunity for musical risk-taking but the Belcea Quartet and friends have...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2022

Ensemble Kheops: Brahms, Berg & Zemlinsky

The Belgian-based Ensemble Kheops have always impressed with their fluency of tone, immaculate intonation and ensemble, and the highly sensitive...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op 12 No 1; Op 24; Op 96 (Rachel Podger)

For her first recorded foray into Beethoven, Rachel Podger chooses three sonatas that suit her essentially collegial performance style. The...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2022

SIBELIUS Compete Symphonies (Mäkelä)

There’s something extraordinarily satisfying about embarking upon Sibelius’s entire symphonic journey in a single one-day sitting. The evolution and refining...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022

Slatkin conducts Slatkin

Before specialising as a conductor, Leonard Slatkin studied composition with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco in Los Angeles, and he has remained active...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2022

Move - The Trumpet As Movie Star

You might describe this entertaining disc as trumpeting (apologies) the extraordinary talents of Romain Leleu through a medium well used...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022

America (Daniel Hope)

Daniel Hope was never just another violin virtuoso. His curiosity, his ability to think outside the box, to embrace passions...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022

John Williams: The Berlin Concert

Viewers in the UK may have seen this Berlin Philharmonic concert on BBC Four in an unscheduled airing on Christmas...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2022

WALTON 'A Centenary Celebration' Façade. Henry V

The appearance of this Somm release marks 100 years since the premiere of the brilliant 19-year-old William Walton’s Façade. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2022

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