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SCHUBERT Trout Quintet

This is the kind of disc a reviewer dreads. Why, you might ask? Is it so terrible? Far from it,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2015

A PANUFNIK String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 R PANUFNIK Memories of my Father

This recording is a kind of conversation between father and daughter; it begins with a luscious arrangement for string sextet...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2015

A PANUFNIK String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 LUTOSŁAWSKI String Quartet

The Panufnik Quartets have been recorded before, by the Chilingirian Quartet on the defunct Conifer label (12/93) and the Silesian...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2015

MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Cello and Piano

R Larry Todd will be familiar to many readers as a Mendelssohn scholar. Clearly he’s an able pianist too, which...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2015

KEELEY Concerto for Piano and 12 Instruments. Dances with Bears

Although Rob Keeley may be known among contemporary music mavens for his formidable pianistic prowess and championing of new works,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2015

HUME Harke, Harke! Lyra Violls Humors & Delights

Time is always well spent in the musical company of Captain Tobias Hume. For the Scottish-born professional soldier-for-hire, music was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2015

GOURZI Music for Piano and String Quartet

Although currently little known in the UK, the Greek composer Konstantia Gourzi (b1962) is well established in Germany as a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015

FRANÇAIX Chamber Music

Jean Françaix’s chamber music, whose great charm is difficult to analyse, is delightfully French, with its wit, lightness of touch,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 01/2015

DODERER The Piano Trios

A composition pupil of Beat Furrer with six operas under her belt, Vienna-based Johanna Doderer (b1969) has some big name...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2015

CHOPIN Piano Trio. Cello Sonata

I find it odd that, with two works in which the piano takes the lead, it’s Johannes Moser whose photo...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015

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