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DOHNÁNYI Serenade. String Quartet No 3. Sextet (Nash Ensemble)

The Nash Ensemble dig into Dohnányi’s Serenade (1902) with gusto, relishing the music’s myriad felicities. If they don’t quite match...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

DEBUSSY; RAVEL Quartets (Jerusalem Quartet)

‘Don’t forget that my String Quartet was already conceived as four-part counterpoint, whereas Debussy’s Quartet is purely harmonic in design’,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018

COUPERIN Pièces de violes

Couperin’s E minor Suite for bass viol and continuo is possibly the most beautiful work for the instrument. We have...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2018

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Kaakinen-Pilch, Hakkila)

This is the third period-instrument recording of Brahms’s violin sonatas I’ve heard, and by far the most illuminating. I admire...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

BIBER The Mystery Sonatas (Christina Day Martinson)

It’s 18 months since I reviewed all the available recordings of this wonderful cycle (Collection, 1/17), an experience that has...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (Jordan)

Beethoven wrote the Fourth Symphony to unblock problems he was encountering with what we now know as the Fifth. Karajan...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2018

ADAMS Violin Concerto (Josefowicz)

In his memoir Hallelujah Junction (Faber: 2008; 2/09), John Adams pays a glowing tribute to Leila Josefowicz’s tireless advocacy of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2018

CRUSELL Clarinet Concertos (Collins)

I imagine I am not alone in having first been introduced to the name and music of Bernhard Henrik Crusell...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018

Concerto Italiano: 1700

Arcangelo Corelli is the (unheard) presiding genius behind this sequel to Rinaldo Alessandrini’s chronological survey of 17th-century Italian string music...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2018

Mathias Kjøller plays Schumann, Reinecke, Debussy

Principal clarinet for both the Aarhus and Danish National Symphony orchestras, Mathias Kjøller (b1985) is a soloist in demand, especially...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018

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