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SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes RACHMANINOV Romances

The prize-winning Russian cellist Boris Andrianov here offers a programme of Russian music in transcriptions for cello and piano. Shostakovich’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2015

PENDERECKI Chamber Works

Most of the works on this disc are relatively recent but it begins with the highly enjoyable Three Miniatures for...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Divertimenti

Mozart informed his father that he had composed the Serenade K375 ‘rather carefully’ to impress Herr von Strack, a Viennese...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015

MENDELSSOHN Piano Quartets

Roberto Prosseda has already been rattling his way through Mendelssohn’s piano music for Italian Decca, and here he is joined...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015

MATTHEWS Complete String Quartets Vol 3

David Matthews’s purposeful, imaginative and inventive music has rightly gained its own following, which the Kreutzer Quartet’s excellent cycle of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2015

LEFRANÇOIS Balnéaire: Chamber Music

It would be hard and probably undesirable to pin any sort of label on the music of Laurent Lefrançois, the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015

WOLF; GRIEG; JANÁČEK String Quartets

These young players based in New York boast a formidable range of accomplishments: perfect chording, beautifully matched tone, precise technical...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015

GRAUPNER Trio Sonatas

The 1990s fashion for dispensing as many recordings as possible of ‘newly discovered’ Baroque music did not always guarantee the...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2015

FUENTES Space Factory III-VI

Arturo Fuentes is a Mexican composer born in 1975 currently living in Austria, whose music has attracted sufficient attention to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015

DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintets

Two composers in particular spring out as influences on these two very different quintets: Schumann in Op 1, most specifically...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015

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