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SCHULHOFF Complete String Quartets

This is the first comprehensive set of the music for string quartet by a composer whose notated yet completely silent...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017

SCHNITTKE Cello Sonata. Suite on the Old Style

Leonard Elschenbroich continues his exploration of less ubiquitous Soviet fare with this fine album dedicated to a creative voice he...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2017

REGER Piano Quintet. Cello Sonata No 4

‘Believe me, my Quintet Op 64 will make the rounds!’ declared Max Reger. Oh dear. As Parnassus Akademie’s pianist Kolja...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

RACHMANINOV; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonatas

No sooner had I commented on the unusual Prokofiev/Rachmaninov coupling in my Moser/Korobeinikov review (in the February issue) than this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2017

PAGANINI 24 Caprices

Interestingly, the first time Paganini’s 24 Caprices were recorded in any form was in 1940 with Ferdinand David’s piano accompaniments...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

MOZART Flute Quartets

Mozart is widely held to have detested the flute, despite the fact that he wrote a whole opera about one...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2017

MAXWELL DAVIES Sonata for Violin Alone. Sonata for Violin and Piano

Maxwell Davies’s output for strings is remembered chiefly for his 10 ‘Naxos’ String Quartets. However, the cycle represents only the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2017

JONGEN Concert à cinq

A misty incantation, a swirl of sound with a whole-tone flavour: if it comes as a surprise to discover Joseph...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

DOHNÁNYI; TANEYEV Piano Quintets

‘His own compositions are more remarkable for sound workmanship and a cultured taste than for charm or warmth of inspiration’,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

KODÁLY; DOHNÁNYI Serenades

I’ll just say it: I don’t think any composer since the 18th century did fast, humorous finales more entertainingly than...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

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