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ELCOCK Chamber Music Vol 1

Steve Elcock’s engaging Clarinet Sextet (2014, rev 2017) started life as a concertino in 2001 and traverses a landscape full...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019

BERG Lyric Suite SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14 (Novus Quartet)

Any misapprehensions of Biedermeier gentility are banished by bracingly antiseptic octaves and fifths to open this Death and the Maiden,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019

BARTÓK String Quartets (Quatour Diotima)

How do you like your Bartók quartets served? With precision, passion, a sense of mystery or a sense of humour?...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2019

MYASKOVSKY; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas

Bruno Philippe is still only 25 but you wouldn’t guess from the maturity of his musical thinking, which is coupled...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2019

VIERNE; FRANCK Violin Sonatas (Ibragimova & Tiberghien)

While we’re not short of top-drawer recordings of Franck’s Violin Sonata, I’m still not sure whether I’ve ever encountered it...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2019

SIBELIUS Symphony No 1. En saga (Rouvali)

This is one terrific disc. For anyone who has ever mistakenly regarded the First Symphony as the romantic, Tchaikovsky-infused precursor...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019

JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier (Pobłocka)

Ewa Pobłocka’s name first came to my attention back in 1980, when she tied for fifth place in that year’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019

SIBELIUS Complete Symphonies (Järvi)

This is the first complete cycle of the symphonies recorded by a French orchestra, which isn’t so strange considering the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2019

Music For my Love Vol 2

I detailed the genesis of this extraordinary series for string orchestra – inspired not by some European aristocrat or royal,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019

Nemanja Radulović: Baïka

'Baïka’ is the French transliteration of the Serbian ‘bajka’, meaning ‘tales’. It is the title of the Franco-Serbian violinist Nemanja...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2019

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