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PARSONS Patterns of Connection - Instrumental Music 1962‑2017

In 1969 Michael Parsons founded the Scratch Orchestra alongside Cornelius Cardew and Howard Skempton. Parsons’s music before then tended to...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2018

MOZART Serenades Nos 11 & 12

What could be better than Mozart in entertainment mode, writing with his characteristic sensitivity for wind instruments? And what could...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2018

JANITSCH Rediscoveries from the Sara Levy Collection

The Berlin composer Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-c1762) occasionally catches the ear on anthologies of music from the court of Frederick...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2018

GLASS String Quartets Nos 6 & 7

The New York-based string quartet Brooklyn Rider have featured Philip Glass as part of their eclectic repertoire since their formation...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2018

FRANCK String Quartet. Piano Quintet

These performances by the Quatuor Danel are deftly poised on a knife’s edge between sensuousness and rigour, as the most...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018

DVOŘÁK String Quintet. Sting Sextet

‘I always have the feeling that people don’t admire this piece enough’, said Johannes Brahms of Dvořák’s String Sextet. I’ll...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2018

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas. Hungarian Dances

The late Joan Chissell, reviewing Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim’s recording of the two Brahms sonatas (EMI, 12/68), said...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018

DVOŘÁK; TCHAIKOVSKY; BORODIN String Quartets

I didn’t think they still made discs like this – three of the best-loved Romantic string quartets, grouped together for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2018

Beethoven Piano Trios (Isimsiz; Rautio)

The Rautio Piano Trio played Mozart on period instruments for their Resonus debut (9/16). Here, in a programme of Beethoven,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018

JS BACH The Art of Fugue, BWV1080

In his booklet note Ottavio Dantone pays the usual tributes to the awesome compositional achievement of The Art of Fugue...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2018

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