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CRESSWELL Music For String Quartet

Born in New Zealand though long resident in Edinburgh, Lyell Cresswell (b1944) is among those ‘well-respected if not widely known’...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2018

CAGE Concert for Piano and Orchestra WOLFF Resistance

That the dedicatee of John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957 58) is Elaine de Kooning (wife of the...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2018

DVOŘÁK; BRAHMS Piano Trios

The ZEN Trio play this pair of warhorses with the technical assurance, musical conviction and stylistic unanimity of an ensemble...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018

BRAHMS 3 Violin Sonatas (Little)

In a sense it’s a surprise that Tasmin Little and Piers Lane have only now got round to the Brahms...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2018

BLOCH Violin Sonatas. Piano Sonata

Look on Ernest Bloch’s reputation, ye mighty, and despair. In 1957 Bloch merited an entire chapter to himself in Alec...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2018

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Manze)

This is the third recording in the cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies that Andrew Manze has made with Onyx and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2018

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (Gatti; Urbański)

Noisy demonstrations at the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring caused choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky to have to furiously shout...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 6 STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms

Available to download or in the context of a 75th-birthday box, this generous 20th-century portrait mixes the relatively unexpected with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2018

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9 (Gülke)

The last time I heard the Great C major (numbered 8 or 9 depending on where you are) in concert...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2018

SCHMITT Symphony No 2. Antoine et Cléopâtre - 2 Suites

Nearly four decades separate the works here but they are very recognisably by the same composer: Florent Schmitt, though eclectic,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018

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