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STANFORD Piano Trio No 2. Piano Quartet No 1

Completed in April 1879 and premiered the following month at one of Hans Richter’s Festival Concerts in London by a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015

BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Vol 1

For all the boldness of both the dots and their execution, the Elias Quartet observe a certain Classical propriety which...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2015

RACHMANINOV Music for Two Pianos

All these recordings derive from performances at Martha Argerich’s annual Lugano Festival made between 2003 and 2009. Apart from their...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015

PÄRT 7 Magnificat Antiphons. Triodion

Given that the music of Arvo Pärt is among a vanishingly small group by whom it is possible to follow...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2015

BRAHMS Clarinet Sonatas 1 & 2 REINECKE Undine

Brahms wrote his late clarinet music for Richard Mühlfield, as did Reinecke his Introduction and Allegro appassionato, a sombre work...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2015

MENDELSSOHN Quartet Op 13 BERG Lyric Suite

The Tetzlaff Quartet is unusual in consisting of four busy soloists who get together only intermittently. The upside is that...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015

STEFFANI Niobe, regina di Tebe

Agostino Steffani (1653-1728) is praised by scholarly cognoscenti as the missing link between Cavalli and Handel but opportunities to hear...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2015

GLASS The Complete Piano Etudes

Full of rapid scale like passages, sweeping arpeggios, syncopated rhythms and repeating patterns, Glass’s musical language seems custom built for...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2015

Dorothea Röschmann: Portraits

Here is a portrait gallery of women in 19th-century German song, comprising two collections depicting Mignon (by Schubert and Wolf)...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2015

Polyphonies oubliées

Fauxbourdon is often seen as polyphony’s poor relation, suitable only for congregational Mass settings or choirs with too little rehearsal...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2015

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