Search the Reviews Database

REZNICEK Five String Quartets (Minguet Quartet)

Despite his Bohemian-sounding name, Reznicek was Viennese by birth and then a Berliner by career, and despite the vintage fizz...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020

MONTALBETTI 'Harmonieuses Dissonances'

French composers launching their careers in the early 1990s – Eric Montalbetti was born in 1968 – had a rich...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2020

KAPUSTIN Saxophone Chamber Music

Long one of Russia’s best-kept musical secrets, Nikolai Kapustin (b1937) has latterly found appreciation for his distinctly classical take on...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2020

HAYDN String Quartets Op 17 (Lepizig Quartet)

Late in life, Haydn reportedly expressed the wish that his canon of string quartets should be considered to have begun...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2020

BRITTEN; ENESCU; RAVEL Piano Trios (Amatis Trio)

Their first commercial release finds the Amatis Trio tackling this not inconsiderable programme for the medium by two gifted adolescents...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2020

BRETÓN String Quartets Nos 1 & 3

Tomás Bretón trained as a violinist at the Conservatoire in Madrid during the 1860s and spent a brief but formative...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 4, 5 & 8 (James Ehnes)

I’ve said before that I don’t think James Ehnes is capable of making an unmusical sound, and the previous instalments...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Fortepiano and Violoncello (Nicolas Altstaedt)

For this new recording of Beethoven’s music for cello and keyboard, Nicolas Altstaedt plays on a gut-strung Guadagnini cello from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020

BEACH; ELGAR Piano Quintets

I have often wondered why the music of Amy Beach is not more loudly acclaimed. As part of a late...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2020

Aspects of America: The Pulitzer Edition

The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917 to recognise excellence in journalism, arts and letters. It wasn’t until 1944...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2020

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---