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Review of BRAHMS; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets

BRAHMS; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets

The Dalí Quartet and Olga Kern give a plainspoken account of Brahms’s F minor Quintet, one that’s rather short on...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022

Review of BRAHMS Piano Quintet Op 34. String Quintet Op 111

BRAHMS Piano Quintet Op 34. String Quintet Op 111

In 2018 the Pavel Haas Quartet won their sixth Gramophone Award for a recording coupling Dvořák’s Piano Quintet (with Boris...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022

Review of Stockholm Diary

Stockholm Diary

All the composers included on this intriguing and beautiful album hail from cool climes but lived (or spent significant time)...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022

Review of Renewal

Renewal

Following up on their very well-received debut album ‘In Motion’ (2/21), the United Strings of Europe (formed by students at...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022

Review of Raffaele La Ragione: Mandolin on Stage

Raffaele La Ragione: Mandolin on Stage

Many of these performances warm into truly enjoyable interpretations, though what inspires this slowly-does-it, tentative approach, I’m not certain. Take...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2022

Review of Simon Callaghan: British Piano Concertos

Simon Callaghan: British Piano Concertos

The title of this album, ‘British Piano Concertos’, may be self-effacing but the contents are anything but, with five of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022

Review of WEINBERG Works for Cello & Orchestra. Chamber Symphony No 4 (Pieter Wispelwey)

WEINBERG Works for Cello & Orchestra. Chamber Symphony No 4 (Pieter Wispelwey)

Weinberg’s recorded coverage expands apace, this release featuring three of his concertante works in readings that eschew the asperities of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022

Review of STOJOWSKI Symphony Op 21. Suite for Orchestra Op 9 (Wit)

STOJOWSKI Symphony Op 21. Suite for Orchestra Op 9 (Wit)

It is not difficult to guess why Zygmunt (sometimes Sigismond) Stojowski’s Symphony in D minor, Op 21 (1898) failed to...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2022

Review of SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Hughes)

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Hughes)

The second instalment of Owain Arwel Hughes’s Sibelius cycle is a pairing of the Second and Fourth Symphonies with a...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2022

Review of SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 WEILL Symphony No 2 (Shani)

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 WEILL Symphony No 2 (Shani)

An eye- (and ear-) catching coupling. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is front and centre of the core repertoire these days –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2022

 

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