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FELDMAN String Quartet No 1. Structures. Three Pieces

Two other worthy versions of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No 1 (1979) – by The Group for Contemporary Music (originally...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014

BRAHMS Serenade No 1 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

This pair of one-off live performances relives and condenses the battle over music in the second half of the 19th...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2014

BRAHMS, DOHNANYI String Quartets No 1

An interesting coupling, Brahms and Dohnányi being cut from similar bales of cloth, the younger composer’s First Quartet composed in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

BLANC String Quintets Nos 3, 4 & 7

A large proportion of Adolphe Blanc’s output was chamber music, and he was much practised in it, with a strength...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2014

Jenny Lin: Night Stories

Jenny Lin has always shown a knack for thematic programme-building, and this collection of pieces inspired by the night ranges...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2014

STRAVINSKY Piano Sonata SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Sonata No 1

Armenian-born but Italian-based pianist Diana Gabrielyan presents an intriguing recital of works by four 20th-century composers ‘whose music has almost...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014

VISÉE Confidences Galantes

For his second recording devoted to the music of Robert de Visée, guitarist and lutenist to Louis XIV and colleague...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW2014

SEABOURNE Steps Volume 4: Libro di Canti Italiano

Previous releases of piano music from Peter Seabourne (9/13) gave notice of a composer wholly at ease in the solo...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Grande Sonata SCHARWENKA Piano Sonata No 2

It takes a real virtuoso to make the gnarly, block-like piano-writing of Tchaikovsky’s underrated Grande Sonate sound pianistically idiomatic and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2014

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Carnaval

Kirill Gerstein writes a thoughtful booklet-note musing on the fact that music’s very elusiveness means that we can create our...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014

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