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Into the Light (The Telegraph Quartet)

Despite being rather imaginatively programmed and very strongly played, this disc is something of a missed opportunity. The album title...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

Brass Roots

This is an engaging, albeit rather short programme of historical recordings from 1967 and 1974. The largest work by far...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019

Minju Choi: Boundless

Minju Choi is a Korean-American pianist who has made a speciality of new American music in her recitals, so it...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019

Sean Kennard: American Classics

Sean Kennard’s assertive plunge into the Barber Sonata’s exposition sets the tone for the pianist’s excellent grasp of the opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2019

SCHMIDT Quintet for Piano left-hand, Clarinet, Violin, Viola and Cello

Here is something surprising and welcome: the first recording of Franz Schmidt’s Quintet in A for piano left-hand, clarinet, violin,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2018

HARBISON Requiem

John Harbison’s deeply felt, near hour-long Requiem was finished in 2002 after a long gestation period beginning almost two decades...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2018

BRAHMS; CARTER Clarinet Quintets

This is a disc of two halves. It opens with the greatest clarinet quintet ever penned and then abruptly switches...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4 (Deveau)

If you were hearing Mozart’s K449 and Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto for the first time via these reductions for string quintet...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2019

DEBUSSY Études MESSIAEN Fauvettes de l’Hérault (Roger Muraro)

The warm and mellifluous sound enveloping Javier Perianes’s coupling of Préludes Book 1 and Estampes is much in keeping with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2019

Lilit Grigoryan: Variations Serieuses

The Armenian pianist Lilit Grigoryan’s 2012 solo release containing sonatas by Scarlatti, Schumann and Bartók essentially revealed a highly capable...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2019

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