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Review of SZYMANOWSKI Works for Violin and Piano

SZYMANOWSKI Works for Violin and Piano

The litmus test here is the start of ‘La fontaine d’Aréthuse’, the most famous of the three Mythes, where, compared...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2017

Review of L SMITH Drifte

L SMITH Drifte

Linda Catlin Smith (b1957) operates out of bustling urban Toronto, although her work puts you in mind of remote no-man’s-lands,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2017

Review of ORNSTEIN Complete Violin Sonatas

ORNSTEIN Complete Violin Sonatas

The life of Leo Ornstein (1893-2002) is of a fascination such that his music often tends to be overlooked. The...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 4 (arr Stein)

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (arr Stein)

What is the point of arranging music? To bring a work to a wider audience (when Beethoven and Brahms domesticated...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2005

Review of HAYDN The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross

HAYDN The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross

A grotto draped in black, a single lantern, a bishop prostrate before the altar: Haydn himself described the circumstances of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2017

Review of GLANERT Elysion

GLANERT Elysion

Detlev Glanert matured under the tutelage of Henze, and in three of the six works here he pays homage to...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2017

Review of FLAMMER String Quartets Nos 4 & 5

FLAMMER String Quartets Nos 4 & 5

The Neos label continues to venture where others refuse to (or no longer) tread with its third release devoted to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017

Review of FAURÉ; SAINT-SAËNS Works for Cello and Piano

FAURÉ; SAINT-SAËNS Works for Cello and Piano

Is it possible to define a distinctively French style of cello-playing? It would probably have something to do with the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2017

Review of Sinfonie per violoncello

Sinfonie per violoncello

Regular readers of these pages may spot that this is Giovanni Sollima’s second recording devoted to Giovanni Battista Costanzi, the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2017

Review of BEETHOVEN Les Vents Français

BEETHOVEN Les Vents Français

This is rather delicious, and features quite a range of salon music, from the pleasant galanteries of the various trios...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2017

 

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