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Serenade - Works for Clarinet and Strings by Krenek, Gál and Penderecki

All is well with the world in these serenades by Gál and Krenek, which breathe the same Viennese air of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2024

FUCHS Violin Sonatas Nos 4-6 (Hyejin Chung)

Robert Fuchs is a largely forgotten name these days but in 19th-century Vienna he was very much an established part...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024

BRAHMS; LIGETI; MOZART; SCHUMANN Horn Trios

The rhetorical question arises, listening to this particular instrumental line-up: why doesn’t every composer write a horn trio? In the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2024

Music of Martin Boykan Vol 3

Best known for his writings on music (notably The Power of the Moment; Pendragon Press: 2011), Martin Boykan (1931-2021) was...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

'Between Two Worlds'

As his extensive discography makes plain, clarinettist Guy Yehuda is always on the lookout to place Jewish-related music and Jewish...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

BEETHOVEN Early String Quartets

These are, in their own modest way, quite daring interpretations of Beethoven’s six ‘early’ quartets. There have been other recordings...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2024

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-9 (Manacorda)

Artur Schnabel’s dictum that great music is always greater than it can ever be performed is never more apposite than...

Reviewed in issue 07/2024

Berlin Harpsichord Concertos (Phillipe Grisvard)

The mid-18th-century Berlin court of Frederick the Great has been much visited by recording artists over the years, such that...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2024

VASKS; SCHUBERT 'In Evening Light'

There are now enough recordings of Pēteris Vasks’s first violin concerto Distant Light (1997) to furnish a Gramophone Collection. Here...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2024

SCHMITT La Tragédie de Salomé. Chant élégiaque

For all his longevity and prolificacy, Florent Schmitt remains best remembered for a trilogy of pieces from the early 20th...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

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