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BARTÓK String Quartets, Vol 2 (Ragazze Quartet)

In reviewing the first volume of Bartók quartets featuring these Dutch-based players I affirmed that ‘the Ragazze Quartet certainly cut...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022

The Imaginary Music Book of J.S. Bach

I’ve followed Café Zimmermann with great interest down the years, and this latest addition to their catalogue is no less...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2022

ARENSKY; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trios (Trio Con Brio Copenhagen)

The teenage Shostakovich’s single-movement First Trio is obviously not a patch on the mature second – the structural seams show...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2022

'Scenes from the Kalevala' Klami. Madetoja. Pylkkänen. Sibelius

A comprehensive compendium of music drawn from Finland’s national epic, the Kalevala, would run to many discs (see 6/13 for...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2022

Pyrotechnia: Fire & Fury from 18th-Century Italy

There’s a slight but clear danger to the part-misquote of Macbeth (intentional or otherwise) in the subtitle of this recording:...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2022

The Beginnings of the Violin Concerto in France (Johannes Pramsohler)

How do you reconcile the near-chaotic theatrical rhetoric and flashy bravura of the Italian violin concerto with the greater subtlety,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6, ‘Pathétique’ (Järvi)

Paavo Järvi’s Tchaikovsky is undoubtedly a painstaking labour of love. Every single detail has been thought through and is expressed...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 01/2022

SCHACHT Symphonies, Vol 2 (Schmalfuss)

Why haven’t I heard of Theodor von Schacht until now? A very skeletal biography for the similarly uninitiated: born in...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2022

RÓZYCKI Violin Concerto. Works with Violin ( Ewelina Nowicka)

>Ludomir Różycki (1883-1953) is far from a household name even in Poland. Józef Kański, in his useful booklet notes, points...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2022

PIERNÉ Ratmuntcho. Cydalise Et Le Chèvre-Pied Suites

The two Ramuntcho suites derive from Pierné’s incidental music for a play by Pierre Loti, first staged in 1908, which...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022

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