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Flor da noite

Radamés Gnattali (1906 88) was an important figure in Brazilian music. He never realised his dream of being a concert...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

ELGAR String Quartet. Piano Quintet

Performances of conspicuous insight, pedigree and power. In the mighty Piano Quintet the Brodskys generate a consistently stimulating rapport with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2019

DVORÁK String Quartets 5 & 12 SUK Meditation

The Albion Quartet, formed as recently as 2016, are a group of young Brits led by Tamsin Waley-Cohen. In a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2019

COUPERIN Concerts Royaux. Les Nations

Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of François Couperin ‘le Grand’ (1668-1733) with...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2019

MOZART; MAHLER; BRAHMS Piano Quartets (Skride Piano Quartet)

‘You English make Brahms so cold! In reality he was such a human person’, said his former pupil Ilona Eibenschütz....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2019

BORODIN; SHOSTAKOVICH; WEINBERG String Quartets

The young Chinese musicians of the Dragon Quartet here follow up their first disc for Channel Classics (of Schubert and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2019

JS BACH Violin Sonatas (Capuçon, Fray)

A decade on from Swing, Sing & Think – Bruno Monsaingeon’s film that follows David Fray recording Bach’s keyboard concertos,...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2019

ZEMLINSKY; RACHMANINOV; ARENSKY Piano Trios

The Smetana Trio is one of those groups in the grand Czech tradition; this latest line-up features three formidably fine...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

ANTHEIL Complete Violin Music Vol 1 (Alessandro Fagiuoli)

Antheil composed his first three violin sonatas in 1923 24, while he was living and working in Europe. They are...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

HANDEL; LEO Rinaldo (Premiere of the 1718 Naples version)

Extravagantly premiered at the Queen’s Theatre, Haymarket, in 1711, Rinaldo made Handel’s reputation in London and received more stagings, at...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2019

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