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LECLAIR Violin Sonatas, Book 3 - Op. 5, Nos. 1-4

Famed for his Italianate high virtuosity but equally for employing it only with the utmost taste and grace, and for...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022

KAPUSTIN 'Blueprint - Piano Music For Jazz Trio'

In welcoming the unrestrained brilliance of Frank Dupree in Kapustin’s Fourth Piano Concerto (A/21), I compared the experience to listening...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

JENKINS Four-Part Consorts (Phantasm)

Fun fact: the viol consort music of the 16th and 17th centuries was so polyphonically complex and so democratic in...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022

IDDON Sapindales

The music on Martin Iddon’s second portrait disc on Another Timbre casts a flitting shadow at once medieval and contemporary....

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2022

BIRTWISTLE Chamber Works (Nash Ensemble)

For Harrison Birtwistle to change the title of Pulse Sampler to ‘Danse sacrale’ would suggest an inappropriately literal homage to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2022

BEETHOVEN Rondino. Wind Octet MOZART Serenade (MIB Ensemble)

Don’t be fooled by the opus number. Beethoven’s Octet for pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns is one of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022

BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS; GAL 'Auftakt' (Trio Vision)

As Hans Gál told it, a busker named Ungrad frequented the wine gardens of fin de siècle Vienna, and for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2022

'Beethoven for Three' Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

Ferdinand Ries’s arrangement for piano trio of Beethoven’s Second Symphony was published in 1805, a year after the publication of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022

Edgar Moreau: Transmission

The cello as cantor. And for Edgar Moreau the incantations plainly run deep. The ‘Transmission’ of the title goes from...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2022

British Music for Strings, Vol 3 (Bostock)

This latest volume of British string music from Douglas Bostock and his 14 players in the South West German Chamber...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2022

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