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British Works for Cello and Piano

In bringing together four highly contrasting British composers of the later 20th century, this vibrant recording, with splendid playing by...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2015

20th-Century Women Composers

Rebecca Clarke, Lili Boulanger and Amy Beach were pioneers at a time when musical careers for women were limited away...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2015

RUDORFF Chamber Music

There is so much music from the 19th century that remains forgotten or under-performed. Whenever a relatively unfamiliar name heaves...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015

ONSLOW String Quartets

Born in Clermont-Ferrand of Anglo-French parentage (his father was a maverick MP who fled England to avoid prosecution, his mother...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2015

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 1 & 4

Since their Zemlinsky recordings (Naxos, 10/13, 9/14), the Escher Quartet has acquired a new second violinist: Aaron Boyd. With Mendelssohn,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015

MCGUIRE Entangled Fortunes

Economic theory doesn’t inspire great music. However, the title-work of this wonderful collection of chamber music by the Scottish composer...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2015

MCLEOD Moments in TIme

A perennial ‘dark horse’ among contemporary composers, Aberdeen-born John McLeod goes into his ninth decade with his profile arguably at...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2015

LISZT Works for Violin and Piano

This is the second disc of Liszt’s violin-and-piano works to come my way within a few months. In the May...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015

GADE Chamber Works

Just over two decades ago, Niels W Gade’s 1864 Sextet was hailed in these pages as his ‘finest extended chamber...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2015

FINZI Five Bagatelles. Diabelleries. Interlude

Although Finzi did not compose much chamber music, his innately contrapuntal style, informed by enduring fascination for the music of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2015

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