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HAYDN; LIGETI; BRAHMS String Quartets

Comparisons may be of academic interest for this Hungarian-themed album, but Ligeti’s first work of early maturity receives an outrageously...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015

TELEMANN Violin Sonatas

I’ll admit straightaway that it’s a relief not to see the words ‘Vol 1’ anywhere on this release. Not that...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2015

SCHUBERT String Quartets No 15. Quartettsatz

If you haven’t previously encountered Quatuor Terpsycordes, they’re a Geneva-based period-instrument group who formed in 1997; this is their second...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015

RACHMANINOV Suites. Symphonic Dances

The Canadian pianist Hélène Mercier has appeared in these pages on and off for more than 20 years, always in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015

MAGNARD Violin Sonata. Piano Trio

The latest addition to the slowly growing Albéric Magnard discography presents us with an unusual if striking coupling. French violinist...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015

KORNGOLD Piano Trio. Suite

There remains at least one Korngold masterpiece awaiting definitive, rehabilitative advocacy (the Symphonic Serenade of 1948), despite which the composer...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2015

FITELBERG String Quartets

The Fitelberg you may have heard of is Grzegorz, also a composer but better-known as conductor and transcriber of Szymanowski,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2015

DVOŘÁK String Quartets

Context is the principal factor that links these two programmes, with Dvořák as the common linchpin: an overwhelming musical presence...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015

RACHMANINOV; CHOPIN Cello Sonatas

It’s a bold musician who dares to duet with Alisa Weilerstein. So much is out of the question: complacency, clichés,...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 11/2015

BARTÓK Sonata for 2 Pianos HINDSON Pulse Magnet

Let’s start in the middle: Matthew Hindson’s piece is fun, kicking off with a lusty ‘one, a-two, a-one-two-three-four!’ which leads...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015

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