Review: Mieczysław Weinberg: String Quartets Nos 1, 7 & 11 (Arcadia Quartet)
Pitch perfect interpretations of works spanning a composer’s chequered lifetime.
Pitch perfect interpretations of works spanning a composer’s chequered lifetime.
This month, we lead with gripping string quartets from the greatest composer nobody knew for years, plus a century of outstanding music by women, both home and away.
Intense taletelling of Czech and Hungarian works for cello and piano from cellist Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman.
This month’s musical journey takes us from the choir stalls of Westminster Abbey to an eerily haunted music hall and winds up with a legendary blast from the past.
British stars give us late Mozart with flair, nuance and a gutsy swagger.
Weinberg’s string quartets get the Arcadian treatment.
Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson’s intriguing coupling of Debussy and Rameau sweeps the board.
An itinerant life that produced exciting, exotic music.
Davis’s radiant account of the score nearly has the soloists to match.
Bavouzet puts Beethoven’s peers under the microscope to revealing effect.