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C SIMPSON 20 Ayres. Four Divisions

What a treat it is to hear forgotten chamber music by the English viol player Christopher Simpson, whose four-part Ayres...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2015

PÄRT Complete Works for Violin and Piano

A number of previous recordings of Arvo Pärt’s piano music have been released, including Ralph van Raat (Naxos, 12/11), Katarina...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2015

MOZART Complete Flute Quartets

‘Three small, easy and brief concertinos and a couple of quartets for the flute’ is how Mozart described the commission...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2015

MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios

What a pleasure to have not one but two recordings of the Mendelssohn piano trios plunk on to my doormat....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2015

KARG-ELERT Wagner Operas for Harmonium and Piano

Here are 12 more or less self-contained extracts from Wagner’s operas arranged for harmonium and piano duet by Sigfrid Karg...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015

HANDEL Trio Sonatas Op 5

John Walsh published Handel’s Op 5 Trio Sonatas in 1739 but Challenge’s booklet-note insinuates naively that the composer himself had...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015

HAHN Concerto provençal. Divertissement

Reynaldo Hahn is best known for his songs, his operettas and his relationship with Marcel Proust: the two were lovers...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2015

Malincolia: Works for Cello and Piano by Grieg and Sibelius

Tchaikovsky Competition winner and Rostropovich pupil Geringas makes a muscular and forthright impression in the Grieg Sonata, close to the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2015

BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet ZEMLINSKY Trio

The Brahms Quintet treats the clarinet as a member of a five-part ensemble rather than as a lone voice set...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 09/2015

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Works for Cello and Piano

Jacqueline du Pré was only 23 when she recorded her heady account of the Brahms cello sonatas. But this new...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2015

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