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SAINT-SAËNS Chamber Music with Winds

The players of the Orchestre de Paris mark the centenary of Saint-Saëns’s death with a survey of his chamber works...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2022

Four Trumpet Sonatas after Mozart (Jonathan Freeman-Attwood)

Mozart’s relationship with the trumpet was famously antipathetic. He is reported to have been terrified by the instrument as a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2022

Crossroads: American Violin Sonatas

The American violin sonata remains a slightly neglected corner of the repertoire for European artists and audiences (and ditto for...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022

BRAHMS Viola Sonatas 1 & 2 SCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro (Philip Dukes)

The other day a friend of mine in her 80s told me that she sees an old lady when she...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2022

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

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