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JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Kuusisto)

There are interesting aspects to this set, the first to strike me being the resonant acoustic of the Österåker Church...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2019

Themes and Variations (Guy Johnston, Tom Poster)

It takes a particularly selfless kind of cellist to begin a recital with Beethoven’s Bei Männern Variations. Donald Tovey once...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019

Ascent (Matthew Lipman & Henry Kramer)

Another chipping from Shostakovich’s workbench here receives its first recording, in the shape of an Impromptu almost certainly composed for...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2019

G WILLIAMS Chamber Music

Grace Williams isn’t exactly neglected in the concert hall – at least not in Wales, where every orchestral musician, amateur...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets 5 & 7; Piano Quintet

Shostakovich’s Fifth Quartet is one of his most demanding, certainly in terms of physical, emotional and intellectual stamina, and while...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2019

SCHUMANN Piano Trios (Horszowski Trio)

Leif Ove Andsnes and Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff’s full-throated, richly romantic accounts of the Schumann piano trios came as something...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019

SCHUBERT et al Trouts

An international ensemble perform Schubert’s evergreen quintet for piano and strings, and surround it with the ‘Trout Project’ – a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019

HAYDN String Quartets, Op 71 (Maxwell Quartet)

Composed for London’s Hanover Square Rooms, Haydn’s Op 71 Quartets balance a chamber-musical refinement with broad effects calculated to appeal...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN Complete String Quartets, Vol 1

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen wrote his first three string quartets in 1959 and his 14th and last in 2013, three years before...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019

FENNESSY Panopticon

David Fennessy, now in his 40s, has come a long way since playing guitar in rock bands. Born in Ireland,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2019

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