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SCHUBERT String Quintet D956. String Quartet D703

Myriad moods, immoderate demands and ‘unplumbed melancholy underlying even his brightest and most vivacious moments’ (WJ Turner’s description of Mozart...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014

RUBINSTEIN Piano Quartets

Having dealt comprehensively with Liszt (99 CDs for Hyperion), the indefatigable Leslie Howard has been espousing Anton Rubinstein, one of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2014

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 2, 3 & 6

Four notes – G sharp, A, F natural and E – opening Beethoven’s A minor Quartet, Op 132, must have...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014

MANCINI Solos for Flute

Francesco Mancini (1672-1737) spent all of his working life in his native city of Naples, notably as Alessandro Scarlatti’s successor...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014

STRAUSS; MAHLER String Quartets. Lieder

In ways more subtle in scale but no less carefully provocative than orchestral recordings by Norrington and Zinman, this recording...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2014

HAYDN; PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets

The Edinburgh Quartet’s finely matched sound and firm sense of rhythm lead to a splendid performance of the Haydn. It’s...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue:

Nordic Cello Soul

The rather curious title here, ‘Nordic Cello Soul’, covers widely diverse music by three Nordic composers. The pair of opening...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 07/2014

GLERUP Dust Encapsulated

Rune Glerup (b1981) is a young Danish composer of whom there are high hopes for the future in his native...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014

FAURÉ Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2

Daishin Kashimoto makes his second appearance in Eric Le Sage’s Fauré series, this time taking centre stage. He’s a persuasive...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2014

DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No 3 SMETANA Piano Trio Op 15 SUK Elegy

Smetana’s G minor Trio has one of the grandest openings in the entire piano trio repertoire, its Lisztian axis much...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014

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