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Hommage à Fritz Kreisler

I thought during the first track, Tambourin chinois, that I was in for another efficient and charmless collection of Kreisler...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2017

HOLST Chamber Music

‘Whatever his hand found to do he did it with his might’, wrote Vaughan Williams of his friend Gustav Holst,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

FURTWÄNGLER Piano Quintet

Furtwängler’s father was an archaeologist who assisted Heinrich Schliemann in the uncovering (some would say imaginative reconstruction) of the temples...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2017

FUCHS The Complete Works for Cello and Piano

It’s always nice to receive a new disc of music by Robert Fuchs, the Austrian symphonist who taught a regular...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

FAURÉ Romance MATTHEWS Romanza

On the face of it, Fauré might not seem like the most obvious of pairings for the music of David...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

4 X Anders Eliasson

Like his geographical neighbour Per Nørgård, Anders Eliasson hit upon a harmonic formula early in his career that freed him...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2017

DELIUS; ELGAR String Quartets

Although it was well received at its November 1916 world premiere in London, Delius’s String Quartet was promptly revised by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2017

CHAMINADE Piano Trios

So far as I can see, this is only the second time that both of Chaminade’s piano trios have appeared...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2017

BRAHMS String Quintets Nos 1 & 2

In their overarching feeling of balance and proportion, these interpretations by the WDR Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players remind me of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2017

BLOCH Music for Cello and Piano

Can it really be that the Ernest Bloch who wrote the Cello Sonata (1897) is the same composer who penned...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2017

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