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Ascent (Matthew Lipman & Henry Kramer)

Another chipping from Shostakovich’s workbench here receives its first recording, in the shape of an Impromptu almost certainly composed for...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2019

G WILLIAMS Chamber Music

Grace Williams isn’t exactly neglected in the concert hall – at least not in Wales, where every orchestral musician, amateur...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets 5 & 7; Piano Quintet

Shostakovich’s Fifth Quartet is one of his most demanding, certainly in terms of physical, emotional and intellectual stamina, and while...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2019

SCHUMANN Piano Trios (Horszowski Trio)

Leif Ove Andsnes and Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff’s full-throated, richly romantic accounts of the Schumann piano trios came as something...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019

SCHUBERT et al Trouts

An international ensemble perform Schubert’s evergreen quintet for piano and strings, and surround it with the ‘Trout Project’ – a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019

HAYDN String Quartets, Op 71 (Maxwell Quartet)

Composed for London’s Hanover Square Rooms, Haydn’s Op 71 Quartets balance a chamber-musical refinement with broad effects calculated to appeal...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN Complete String Quartets, Vol 1

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen wrote his first three string quartets in 1959 and his 14th and last in 2013, three years before...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019

FENNESSY Panopticon

David Fennessy, now in his 40s, has come a long way since playing guitar in rock bands. Born in Ireland,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2019

FAURÉ; DEBUSSY; SZYMANOWSKI Violin Sonatas

It’s a violin contest we have to thank for this new duo partnership between longstanding DG artist Rafał Blechacz and...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2019

BONS Nomaden

For decades after it was first given in 1985, the Grawemeyer Award was mostly canonical, honouring composers who most regular...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2019

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