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BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18/3, Op 131 (Calder Quartet)

Beethoven apparently once described himself as a new Bacchus. So he’d surely have approved of the winery in Napa Valley...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios, Vol 3 (Van Baerle Trio)

When the Van Baerle Trio released the first disc in their Beethoven cycle (4/18), I reviewed it here with a...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2019

BARTÓK String Quartets 1, 2 & 4 (Ragazze Quartet)

These are extremely well-focused and well recorded performances, the cello cadenza near the opening of the First Quartet’s third movement...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2019

JS BACH Goldberg Variations. Suite No 1 (Arundo Quartet)

Presently a bassoonist with the Berlin Philharmonic, Václav Vonášek founded the Arundo wind ensemble as a trio in 2003, and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2019

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concertos 3-5 (Kantorow)

It is no hardship to review yet another Saint-Saëns piano concerto recording when it is as good as this, and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2019

GOUNOD Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Tortelier)

‘Write me symphonies like Beethoven’s and I’ll play them!’ Jules Pasdeloup told Charles Gounod. Nowadays, we associate the French composer...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2019

Jess Gillam: Rise

Many will remember the 2016 BBC Young Musician of the Year as that rare old tussle between two very different...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2019

Mr Handel's Dinner (Maurice Steger)

Swiss recorder supremo Maurice Steger’s latest offering is a fun-filled imagining of the sorts of musical interludes that might have...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2019

Amy Dickson: In Circles

Amy Dickson’s recordings seem to fall into two categories: new music, with a focus on minimalists and composers from her...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 69

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Horizon 9

The Royal Concertgebouw’s ‘Horizon’ series continues with this collection of relative hits and misses. It’s unfortunate that these latter should...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2019

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