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LECLAIR Flute and Violin Sonatas

In an era when many French composers produced Italianate sonatas, Leclair wrote with the particular authority he gained from having...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2013

HAYDN String Quartet Op 76 No 2 SCHUBERT String Quartet D810, 'Death and the Maiden'

There is an exciting combination of influences in this first recording of the all-female Dutch quartet, although the fact that...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2013

GODOWSKY 12 Impressions. Avowal. Waltz Poems Nos 1 & 2

Like Chopin, every single work by Godowsky features the piano. Unlike Chopin, Godowsky wrote nothing for piano and orchestra, nor...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2013

GHEDINI Complete Music for Violin and Piano

Following up his two-volume survey for Naxos of Ghedini’s complete piano music, Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi and his duo partner Emy...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2013

Pascal & Ami Rogé play Debussy & Ravel

On a disc to delight even the most blasé Francophile, the husband-and-wife team of Pascal and Ami Rogé give us...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013

BLOCH Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2

The young French violinist Elsa Grether here gives the most passionate performances of three of Ernest Bloch’s works most deeply...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2013

Music in Exile: Chamber Music by Paul Ben-Haim

The first work you’ll hear on this absorbing CD was composed by a 24-year-old who worked as an assistant conductor...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2013

BERG; BARTÓk; SCHNITTKE String Quartets No 3

A trio of characterful and accomplished 20th-century string quartets make a satisfyingly substantial programme of a kind now rare on...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2013

Fauré; Debussy; Ravel String Quartets

Among the many breathtaking moments on the Ebène Quartet’s CD, there is one in particular that keeps calling one back....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/08

Mendelssohn Complete Symphonies; Overtures

It is in the choral Second Symphony that the advantage of the wide-ranging digital sound comes out most strikingly, in...

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