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Dohnányi Piano Quintet 1; Sextet

Belatedly, and very gradually, we are being made aware of Dohnanyi's chamber music—now being offered, be it noted, by artists...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1988

Brahms Klavierstücke, Opp 116 - 119

The seriousness of purpose and textural sophistication characterising Brahms’s late piano pieces befit Nicholas Angelich’s like-minded temperament. His penchant for...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2007

Bartók & Hartmann String Quartets

Of the various non-Hungarian composers who drew musical sustenance from Bartok, none grew stronger, or more distinctive, than Munich-born Karl...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Of ladies and love...

This recital marks an impressive development in Michael Schade's art, but it's of a kind that has to be welcomed...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

Vivaldi Double Concertos

Vivaldi was never slow to recognize a good musical thing when he saw it, hence the exploitation of the plethora...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1993

Volans String Quartets

These three compositions, none of which has been recorded before, all have extra-musical connections to the visual arts. Quartet No....

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Veracini Overtures & Concertos, Vol 2

Acknowledged as one of the finest violinists of the 18th century, known for an almost wilful independence of mind, considered...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2000

Mosolov Piano Sonatas Nos 3 and 5; Two Nocturnes

The two best-known things about Alexander Mosolov are that he composed The Iron Foundry in 1928, a Russian-futurist equivalent of...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Henze Requiem

With its graphic imagery of war and terror, anguish and hope, it is tempting to see in Henze's cycle of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Handel Agrippina

Agrippina is Handel’s Venetian opera, composed in 1709 for the S. Giovanni Grisostomo theatre, where it was evidently and deservedly...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

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