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MENDELSSOHN String Quartets, Op 44 (Minguet Quartet)

When the 28-year-old Mendelssohn composed his three Op 44 string quartets during 1837-38, life was going exceedingly well. In his...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2021

LABOR Violin Sonata. Cello Sonata

From the evidence on this and Oliver Triendl and friends’ previous disc of Josef Labor’s chamber music (Capriccio, 12/19), the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2021

BRAHMS Clarinet Sonatas. Vier ernste Gesänge (Julian Bliss)

Back in 2016 I enjoyed the forthright drive of Julian Bliss playing Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet with the Carducci Quartet (Signum,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

If you’ve yet to be persuaded of the merits of the Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand Piano, this bright-eyed...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2021

American Quintets (Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective)

If the aim of a debut is to captivate, showcase talent, lend insight into a curatorial perspective and leave the...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 07/2021

Homage to Bach (Brodsky Quartet)

We’re plunged into the cinematic smokiness of film noir for the opening of this album: Bach’s solo violin music, arranged...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2021

VASKS Musica dolorosa. Musica serena. Musica Appassionata. Klātbūtne

Spatially recorded Vasks from the Munich Radio Orchestra has a particular quality, a parallel immersive throbbing to that associated with...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2021

STRAUSS Burleske. Serenade. Tod und Verklarung (Franck)

Richard Strauss’s Burleske has been doing well on record of late. Denis Kozhukhin’s fine Pentatone recording from a couple of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2021

SKALKOTTAS Dance of Waves

Naxos follows its anthology ‘The Neoclassical Skalkottas’ (5/20) with one of widely divergent pieces from the mid-1930s. The 36 Greek...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos. Piano Trio No 2 (Simon Trpčeski)

Nearly a quarter of a century separates Dmitry Shostakovich’s two piano concertos. The First dates from 1933, three years prior...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2021

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