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VENABLES Below the Belt

If you only buy one classical disc advocating LSD and sodomy, make it this one. Philip Venables’s debut disc appears...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2018

SCHUMANN String Quartets Nos 2 & 3 (Elias Quartet)

In 2010 the Elias Quartet played the first of Schumann’s three string quartets at Wigmore Hall – a richly characterised,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018

RUEHR Six String Quartets

Avie’s third release of music by Elena Ruehr (b1963) follows two well-received predecessors (11/12; 2/15) and other issues on Albany,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018

J JENKINS Complete Four-Part Consort Music

It may seem unfortunate for a two-CD set to total only 83 minutes, but then this is John Jenkins’s ‘complete...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2018

GLIÉRE 12 Album Leaves. RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata

Up until now, when I’ve thought about Reinhold Glière, I’ve tended to think big and bold: the Russian Sailors’ Dance...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2018

GLASS Music with Changing Parts

Lying between Glass’s early, strict minimalist pieces of the late 1960s (Music in Fifths and Music in Similar Motion) and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2018

A & J-B FORQUERAY Complete Works

‘Exceptional in almost every way’ best describes this beautifully produced box-set devoted to the lives and legacy of the Forquerays,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2018

EÖTVÖS The Sirens Cycle. Korrespondenz

James Joyce is to contemporary music what Shakespeare was to the Romantics. In the case of the Sirens episode from...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2018

RAVEL; DUTILLEUX; DEBUSSY String Quartets

Since the advent of CD, Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit has become a regular companion piece to the long-familiar pairing of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2018

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 (Eyblet Quartet)

It’s easy to forget that when Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets appeared in 1801 Haydn had yet to publish his own...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2018

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