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SMETANA String Quartets 1 & 2

This is becoming a bit of a habit. The Pavel Haas Quartet record a disc. Critics swoon and reach for...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2015

UK DK: Contemporary Recorder

This is not the first time Michala Petri has juxtaposed recorder works from Britain and her home country, Denmark. A...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015

Sea Eagle - Works for horn

During a prestigious career stretching back to 1981, the horn player Richard Watkins has held posts with the Fires of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015

Preludes in Times Past and Present

Rarely is a disc so blissfully unconcerned with accounting for itself in the marketplace. While ‘Preludes in Times Past and...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood: The Neoclassical Trumpet

As exciting album titles go – ‘Hot Rats’, ‘The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady’ or ‘The Kinks Kontroversy’ –...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

RACHMANINOV; ARENSKY; SHOSTAKOVICH; MUSSORGSKY Piano Trios

Ever since Glinka’s Trio pathétique of 1832, Russian composers have associated the piano trio with elegy, among them Arensky for...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2015

TANEYEV Complete Quintets

Taneyev was one of the few people from whom his teacher Tchaikovsky would tolerate criticism, though Taneyev himself regretted that...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2015

STOCKHAUSEN Mantra

I didn’t much care for the version of Stockhausen’s Mantra that Xenia Pestova, Pascal Meyer and Jan Panis issued via...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 2. Piano Quintet

This is the second joint release from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet. Last time it was in Schumann’s Quintet...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2015

ROSING-SCHOW Alliages

Although his music has been little heard in the UK, Niels Rosing-Schow (b1954) is a leading voice in Danish new...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015

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