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TANEYEV; GLAZUNOV String Quintets

Taneyev and Glazunov were the two opposite extremes of their generation in Russia. Taneyev was the stern artistic conscience of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

FREY Grizzana and Other Pieces. Circles and Landscapes

I listened to these two sets of instrumental and solo piano works by the Swiss composer Jürg Frey in instalments...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2016

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Piano Quintets Nos 1 & 2

The story of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is tragically familiar. Hailed as a bright young modernist in the 1920s, only to be...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

Dämmerung: Late 19th Century Cello Sonatas

It’s a nice parallel that all the lesser-known sonatas on this disc, entitled ‘Twilight’, were written when their respective composers...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2016

Russian Dances

Swans, footballers and a baby elephant make for an unusual ballet troupe on this disc of Russian dances. The Orchestre...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2016

Scherben / Shards

Jonathan Harvey’s Sringāra Chaconne is a late work whose exuberant balancing of sensuous and spiritual, Eastern and Western, sums up...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2016

Daniel Hope: My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin

Daniel Hope, in his own words, ‘fell into Yehudi Menuhin’s lap as a baby of two’. His mother was the...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 04/2016

British Clarinet Concertos Vol 2

Britten did not complete his projected Clarinet Concerto for Benny Goodman, thanks to US customs seizing the manuscript of the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2016

Riccardo Chailly: Music - A Journey for Life. BEETHOVEN. MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos

There’s inevitably a slightly melancholy tinge to this pair of DVDs featuring Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the orchestra...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016

WEINER Csongor and Tünde. Ballet

During the first half of the 20th century Leó Weiner was a bigwig in Hungarian musical life, especially as an...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2016

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