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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

NESET 'Manmade'

Marius Neset (b1985) has now emerged among the leading jazz practitioners, and this release with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022

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