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Born in Dirt An Din (Mr McFall's Chamber)

Jazz has long been associated with dirt and din, its angst-ridden scores providing appropriate atmospheric backdrops to innumerable city noir...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Complete String Quartets; String Sextet

It seems incredible to think that Tchaikovsky’s string quartets were once viewed as insufficiently Russian; but according to Cobbett, when...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2019

SMALLEY Piano, Vocal and Chamber Music

This is a very welcome release indeed. Roger Smalley (1943-2015) is one of those British composers who have slipped beneath...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW2019

SCHUBERT Music for Violin, Vol 1 (Ariadne Daskalakis)

Schubert’s music for violin and orchestra doesn’t suffer from over-familiarity in concert and, lasting only about half an hour in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2019

RILEY Sun Rings

Tippett and the Lindsays, Maxwell Davies and the Magginis, Ferneyhough and the Ardittis … many pieces bear the trace of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2019

F & F MENDELSSOHN Works for Cello and Piano

Johannes Moser, whom I last encountered playing Rachmaninov and Prokofiev with Andrei Korobeinikov, now joins forces with Alasdair Beatson who...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2019

LASH Filigree (Jack Quartet)

The Jack Quartet continue to set the pace in terms of expanding and promoting the string quartet repertoire, their latest...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 71 & 74 (London Haydn Quartet)

And so the London Haydn Quartet finally arrive in London itself. Haydn wrote the six quartets Op 71 and Op...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2019

BRUCE The North Wind was a Woman

Three works by the US-born British composer David Bruce immediately alert you to both his qualities (freshness, clarity, impulsive response...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2019

JS BACH Sonatas for Viola and Harpsichord (Tamestit & Suzuki)

The unexpected gem of this album is the non-Sonata offering from Cantata No 5, Wo soll ich fliehen hin. The...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW2019

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