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DEBUSSY; RAVEL Quartets (Jerusalem Quartet)

‘Don’t forget that my String Quartet was already conceived as four-part counterpoint, whereas Debussy’s Quartet is purely harmonic in design’,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018

COUPERIN Pièces de violes

Couperin’s E minor Suite for bass viol and continuo is possibly the most beautiful work for the instrument. We have...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2018

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Kaakinen-Pilch, Hakkila)

This is the third period-instrument recording of Brahms’s violin sonatas I’ve heard, and by far the most illuminating. I admire...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

BIBER The Mystery Sonatas (Christina Day Martinson)

It’s 18 months since I reviewed all the available recordings of this wonderful cycle (Collection, 1/17), an experience that has...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (Jordan)

Beethoven wrote the Fourth Symphony to unblock problems he was encountering with what we now know as the Fifth. Karajan...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2018

ADAMS Violin Concerto (Josefowicz)

In his memoir Hallelujah Junction (Faber: 2008; 2/09), John Adams pays a glowing tribute to Leila Josefowicz’s tireless advocacy of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2018

CRUSELL Clarinet Concertos (Collins)

I imagine I am not alone in having first been introduced to the name and music of Bernhard Henrik Crusell...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018

Concerto Italiano: 1700

Arcangelo Corelli is the (unheard) presiding genius behind this sequel to Rinaldo Alessandrini’s chronological survey of 17th-century Italian string music...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2018

Mathias Kjøller plays Schumann, Reinecke, Debussy

Principal clarinet for both the Aarhus and Danish National Symphony orchestras, Mathias Kjøller (b1985) is a soloist in demand, especially...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018

The Music of Jean Sibelius (Chamber Domaine)

Sibelius as proto-minimalist – well, why not? That’s what the conductor Thomas Kemp suggests in his booklet notes, and his...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018

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