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HAYDN String Quartets, Opp 42, 77 & 103

The Takács Quartet come to the end, as it were, of their slow-burn survey of Haydn’s late quartets, following recordings...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2022

CINQUE Sonatas for Three Cellos

How could it have been that, before this treat of a recording landed on my desk, I didn’t know that...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2022

DAVIES Piano Quintet SPAIN-DUNK Piano Quartet WALL Piano Quartet

Henry Walford Davies is a name known to us now for Solemn Melody and small-scale church pieces such as ‘God...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022

CORELLI Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Continuo

This album is the result of the MA Competition Bruges, at which part of the first prize was the opportunity...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022

BRIDGE; BRITTEN Works for Viola (Hélène Clément)

It is good nowadays that recordings of Britten are steadily beginning to acknowledge the debt the composer owed to his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022

Orchestral Focus: Bruckner Symphonies

‘Revaluation’ and ‘revelation’ are the words that most immediately come to mind in response to this remarkable release in Unitel’s...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2022

Lisa Batiashvili: Secret Love Letters

It is often asserted that today’s violin stars lack the personality of their famous forebears. Then again the projection of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2022

Alison Balsom: Quiet City

There’s something intensely evocative about the solo trumpet – a plaintive, plangent, melancholic sound that speaks just as eloquently of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2022

Håkan Hardenberger: French Trumpet Concertos

Håkan Hardenberger and Fabien Gabel, himself a former trumpeter, join forces here for a programme of post-war French music, familiar...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022

Creation

Hard to believe Lockenhaus is now into its fifth decade but this festival, founded in 1981 by Gidon Kremer and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2022

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