Search the Reviews Database

TRAPANI Waterlines

Christopher Trapani is one of America’s musical prospects. Still in his thirties (just about), Trapani has studied at IRCAM, the...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas (Franziska Pietsch)

Prokofiev concerto couplings are two a penny these days yet Franziska Pietsch caused something of a stir with her recent...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2019

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 1

Saint-Saëns was barely out of his teens when he wrote his only Piano Quintet (1855) – an attractive work, even...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2019

JANÁCEK; LIGETI String Quartets (Belcea Quartet)

It is still well within living memory that Janáček’s two string quartets gave up their cult status to become pillars...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019

HINDEMITH Complete works for violin and piano

As his introductory remarks make plain, Roman Mints has been an advocate for Hindemith from the outset of his career....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019

HAAS; SCHULHOFF; ULLMANN String Quartets

The association of Pavel Haas, Hans Krása and Viktor Ullman – all born in either 1898 or 1899 and perishing...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019

The Yiddish Cabaret

Whatever one makes of the title, ‘The Yiddish Cabaret’ is an enjoyable if rather lopsided concept, with the main work...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019

Essence: Lisa Friend plays Fauré and Debussy

Lisa Friend and Rohan de Silva’s new recital contains only one work – Fauré’s Op 79 Fantaisie – that was...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019

CATOIRE; FRIEDMAN Piano Quintets

Bengt Forsberg has always been a great champion of the underdog and he has gathered around him a quartet of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

BEETHOVEN; BOLCOMB; BRAHMS Triptych (Delphi Piano Trio)

The Delphi Piano Trio are a prize-winning ensemble from North America for whom ‘food and friendship … are at the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---