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FARRENC Piano Trios Nos 2 & 4 (Linos Ensemble)

Overcoming the prejudice and condescension of the Parisian establishment, Louise Farrenc (1804‑75) was the most successful female composer of her...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023

BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 KRENEK Trio-Fantasia (Feininger Trio)

The Feininger Trio here bring together works of two Viennese masters, written when both were young men near the beginning...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2023

ALESSANDRINI Leçons de ténèbres

Many 20th-century composers relished bringing borrowed materials into contact with the new modernist qualities, as a special kind of dramatic...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2023

ADÈS Alchymia

The title of Thomas Adès’s clarinet quintet is pregnant with implications of how composers turn base notes into musical gold,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2023

Sturm und Drang, Vol 3

'Storm and Stress’ is a useful phrase to describe the emotional world explored by German-speaking composers in the latter part...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2023

WEINBERG Symphony No 12 (Storgårds)

Mieczysław Weinberg was a prolific composer, so even though many of his pieces have been revived over the past 30...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 12/2023

SAINT-SAËNS Symphonic Poems. Le Carnaval des animaux. L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (Roth)

‘I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.’ What a fertile musical imagination Camille Saint-Saëns possessed. It’s easy to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2023

NOVÁK Concertos (Netopil)

What next for Martinů fanciers? This, perhaps: the best of a clutch of releases exploring the music of his student,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2023

MOZART Violin Concertos Vol 2 (Aisslinn Nosky)

As David Threasher informed us back in March 2021, the first volume of the teenage Mozart’s violin concertos from Aisslinn...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2023

MOZART Symphonies Nos 36 & 38

‘Minasi’s Mozart never smiles’, wrote Richard Wigmore of the Italian conductor’s previous exploration of the symphonies (5/20) – two discs...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2023

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