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Review of RIETI Chamber Music with Harpsichord

RIETI Chamber Music with Harpsichord

The composer and virtuoso harpsichordist Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994) is best known for his long and enduring friendship with Igor Stravinsky,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015

Review of MOZART 6 String Quartets Dedicated to Haydn

MOZART 6 String Quartets Dedicated to Haydn

The Quatuor Cambini-Paris have so far tended to focus on the more esoteric areas of the quartet repertoire – notably...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2015

Review of LECLAIR Sonatas for 2 Violins

LECLAIR Sonatas for 2 Violins

Two violinists playing mid-18th-century French music without continuo? Leclair published two sets 17 years apart, of which this, the second,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2015

Review of JENKINS Fantasies a 4

JENKINS Fantasies a 4

I cannot recall quite so targeted a selection of John Jenkins’s viol music: previous recitals by Phantasm, Fretwork and Jérôme...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2015

Review of FRANCK; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas

FRANCK; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas

Occupying the central place in the canon of Romantic violin repertoire as it does, Franck’s Violin Sonata is programmed in...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015

Review of Andreas Ottensamer: Brahms, the Hungarian Connection

Andreas Ottensamer: Brahms, the Hungarian Connection

This album explores Brahms’s lifelong fascination with Hungarian idioms. The programme, following the Quintet, comprises a series of arrangements by...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015

Review of BORGSTRØM Works for Violin and Piano

BORGSTRØM Works for Violin and Piano

Like other Norwegian Romantics with ears open to modern trends – Grieg and Ibsen come immediately to mind – Hjalmar...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2015

Review of BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Op1/2; Op70/1

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Op1/2; Op70/1

Personal projection at the highest level predominates in Op 70 No 1. From the fortissimo up-rush, Allegro vivace e con...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015

Review of Vassily Sapellnikoff ; Xaver Scharwenka: ‘The Complete Recordings’

Vassily Sapellnikoff ; Xaver Scharwenka: ‘The Complete Recordings’

Sapellnikoff’s Tchaikovsky Concerto has appeared on CD before (notably Pearl GEMMCD9163) but not his complete extant recordings (the sides he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

Review of Mahan Esfahani: Time Present and Time Past

Mahan Esfahani: Time Present and Time Past

The fusion of old and new styles characterising harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani’s DG debut unfolds with a sense of continuity and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

 

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