Quatuor Ébène and the Belcea Quartet join forces to play Octets by Mendelssohn and Enescu.
Tag: Chamber
Review: Schubert – 4 Hands Piano Music – Bertrand Chamayou, Leif Ove Andsnes
Bertrand Chamayou and Leif Ove Andsnes in piano music for 4 hands by Schubert, including the F Minor Fantasia, D. 940.
Review: Haydn – String Quartets Op. 76 – Quatuor Arod
Quatuor Arod perform Haydn’s six strings quartets, Op. 76, including ‘Fifths’, ‘Emperor’ and ‘Sunrise’.
Review: Ravel – Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble in chamber works by Maurice Ravel.
Year In Review – The Best Classical Music Albums, 2025
Discover the best classical music albums of the year (2025), handpicked by The Classic Review staff.
In Short – 5 Albums Worth Your Listen – December 2025
Brief reviews of five recent classical albums: Bach Cantatas with Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé, the Nash Ensemble play Ravel, Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 with the National Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda, Haydn’s Op. 76 String Quartets with Quatuor Arod, and Mikhail Pletnev in Preludes by Chopin and Scriabin.
Review: Martinů – String Quartets No. 2, 3, 5 & 7 – Pavel Haas Quartet
Pavel Haas Quartet play four of Martinů’s String Quartets.
Review: River of Music – The Kanneh-Masons
The Kanneh-Masons play Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet, with other works by Coleridge-Taylor, Handel, Elgar, Chopin and Dvořák.
Review: Beethoven for Three, Vol. 4 – Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax
Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax perform Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ and ‘Gassenhauer’ piano trios, and Shai Wosner’s arrangement of the first symphony.
Review: Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Shostakovich and Britten
Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Shostakovich’s cello concerto No. 2 and cello sonata, along a cello sonata by Britten.
