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Ukrainian Piano Quintets

Finally I’ve found my CD equivalent to Proust’s memory-laden madeleine. Not only are the performers former classmates and colleagues of...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2022

LOCKE The Flat Consort

A difficult, cantankerous personality who bore grudges and spoke his mind without much regard for the consequences. And one possessed...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2022

HIGGINS 'Ekstasis'

Although he has received several major commissions, not least from the Royal Opera House and the BBC Proms, this is...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022

FUCHS; KORNAUTH Works for viola and piano (Litton Dup)

Lockdown clearly had some consolations. Andrew Litton describes how, with their international careers temporarily on hold, he and his wife...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022

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

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