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WASSENAER Six Concerti armonici

As Roy Goodman’s Brandenburg Consort and others have proved in the past, six Concerti armonici published anonymously at The Hague...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015

TELEMANN Trios and Quartets

La Rêveuse have hitherto recorded 17th-century music featuring viols, such as Locke, Purcell and Henry Lawes, but now they turn...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015

SUK Complete Works for String Quartet

We do not hear enough Josef Suk. That thought strikes me whenever the rare opportunities arise to listen to the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015

STRAVINSKY Divertimento SZYMANOWSKI Mythes. 3 Caprices

Szymanowski’s pieces are likely to be less well known to collectors than Stravinsky’s but they are attractive, inventive and subtle,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2015

STEEN-ANDERSEN Black Box Music

Simon Steen-Andersen (b1976) is nothing if not referential in his concern to concretise his musical concerns, as the two works...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2015

REGER Complete Piano Quartets

Max Reger’s Piano Quartet Op 113 launches itself with a compositional exclamation mark, a wantonly illegal chromatic sidestep that a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

SZYMAŃSKI Pieces for String Quartet

The Royal String Quartet have made a good reputation in a fairly wide repertory, including their support of modern composers...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2015

HVOSLEF Chamber Works

Now in his mid-seventies, Ketil Hvoslef has long been a respected presence on the contemporary music scene and a highly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2015

FELDMAN For Bunita Marcos. Why Pattern?

Often I wonder whether the unstoppable rise of Morton Feldman would have been possible without the CD. Pieces that run...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

FAURÉ; SAINT-SAËNS; d'INDY Piano Trios

This highly accomplished group, based in New York, takes its name from the legendary pianist Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993). Pianist Rieko...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2015

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