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Complices (Queyras & Tharaud)

You could be forgiven for looking at the title of this latest collaboration between French masters of their art, Jean-Guihen...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020

Lionel Handy: British Cello Works

Ethel Smyth became the doyenne of British women composers but she was young once, as evidenced by her early Cello...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020

VASKS Works for Piano Trio (Palladio Trio)

This release includes the sixth (at least) recording of Vasks’s Episodi e Canto perpetuo but it’s still arguably the least...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2020

TELEMANN Recorder Sonatas (Dahl, Hearne, Kjos)

The Norwegian recorder player Caroline Eidsten Dahl has really ticked the boxes with this collection of nine of Telemann’s recorder...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020

SCHUMANN Piano Trios (Kungsbacka Piano Trio)

It seems a while since we’ve seen the Kungsbacka Trio on disc, most recently with Haydn and Fauré on Naxos...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

POULENC Wind Music (Ensemble Confoederatio)

There’s something of the Parisian café about Poulenc’s music for woodwinds. The opening of the Sextet is a prime example,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020

HELLAWELL Up by the Roots

As a title, Wild Flow might look like another well-meaning contribution to the aesthetics of Extinction Rebellion. However, the 20-minute,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2020

DICKINSON Chamber and Instrumental Works

Arnold Whittall noted, in his Contemporary Composers feature on Peter Dickinson (10/18), that a recording of the Violin Sonata (1961)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Sonatas and Songs (Christian Poltéra)

When both Schumann and Brahms were so enthusiastic about the instrument, cellists can rightly mourn that Schumann didn’t leave more...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020

ALWYN String Quartets Nos 6-9 (Villiers Quartet)

This ‘most intimate of mediums’ was how William Alwyn described the string quartet and it was an idiom he constantly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2020

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