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MOZART Violin Sonatas (Francesca Dego)

Readers may remember the perky pair of Mozart violin concertos Francesco Dego released last year with Roger Norrington and the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022

MENDELSSOHN Violin Sonatas (Alina Ibragimova)

It’s interesting, albeit unsurprising, that Mendelssohn, despite his Violin Concerto in E minor of 1844 sitting as one of the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022

MENDELSSOHN The String Quintets (Doric Quartet, Timothy Ridout)

Mendelssohn was famously acclaimed (by Schumann) as ‘the Mozart of the 19th century’ and (by Liszt) as ‘Bach reborn’. Both...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022

LAMB String Quartets (Jack Quartet)

American-born, Berlin-based Catherine Lamb is a composer of microtonal music (or spectralist, depending on your point of view). In 2020...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2022

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

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