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MARAIS Troisieme Livre de Pieces de Viole (Francois Joubert-Caillet)

When I reviewed the Deuxième livre back in January 2020, I toyed with the idea of listening to it every...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2021

LEWIS The Recombinant Trilogy

Professor of Music at Columbia University and a pioneer of interactive computer music, George Lewis made news recently with his...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2021

RAVEL; LA TOMBELLE String Quartets (Mandelring Quartet)

Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928) was something of an unknown quantity until recently, when a number of important recordings of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2021

LAMB Muto Infinitas

From Carillo to Vïshnegradsky, from Partch to Young, there exists a counter-tradition of composers who have sought in free intonation...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2021

KARNAVIČIUS String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 (Vilnius String Quartet)

Jurgis Karnavičius’s work is newly rediscovered in his native Lithuania, though his historical importance has always been clear. Born in...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2021

HINDEMITH Wind Sonatas (Les Vents Français)

Previous releases by Les Vents Français have tended to concentrate on ensemble pieces, trios, quintets and so on, with occasional...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2021

DVORÁK Spirit of Bohemia (Fine Arts Quartet)

The Fine Arts Quartet, founded back in 1946, is one of those ensembles that keeps its name while the players...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2021

BRAHMS Trio, Op 114. Sonatas, Op 120

Given that I encounter Brahms’s Op 120 Sonatas in their alternative viola versions nearly as often as the clarinet originals,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 4, 5 & 7 (Viktoria Mullova)

It’s a mere decade since Viktoria Mullova’s last recorded foray into Beethoven’s violin sonatas (9/10). Then her co-conspirator was Kristian...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2021

Miloš: The Moon and the Forest

In singularity and softness of volume, the classical guitar is the antithesis of the orchestra, yet musicians such as Berlioz...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2021

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