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CLARKE A Different Game

As Axel Klein’s introductory note suggests, Irish new music is a significant yet relatively unknown facet of the European scene...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017

CHAUSSON Concert FRANCK Violin Sonata

Chausson’s Concert for violin, piano and string quartet is chamber music, of course, yet displays a symphonic character that justifies...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2017

BUXTEHUDE Trio Sonatas

During the late 1600s, when Dieterich Buxtehude was organist of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, the town council received a wonderful...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2017

BRAHMS Piano Quintet. SCHUMANN String Quartet No 1

Most pianists approach the Brahms Quintet with a degree of trepidation, for it’s a big play and there’s a lot...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017

Lettres intimes

Amatory love is the subtext of the first and last works on this imaginatively planned European programme, the ‘intimate letters’...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2017

Notos Quartett: Hungarian Treasures

If this is indeed the first commercial recording of a substantial but lost chamber work by Bartók, one’s instinctive reaction...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2017

JS BACH Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV1014 1019

Even before hitting the stereo, this first solo recording from violinist Chiara Zanisi was looking rich with promise, because while...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2017

Handel in Ireland, Vol 1

A nice idea this, to complement London Early Opera’s ‘Handel in Italy’ and ‘Handel at Vauxhall’ series with a project...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2017

Anne Queffélec: Entrez dans la danse...

The same qualities as on her delightful cornucopia ‘Satie & Compagnie’ (4/13) are on display again in Anne Queffélec’s programme...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2017

Abbey Spectacular!

The London thread running through this programme is understandable, but I am not sure it makes much musical sense. Nor...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2017

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