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ONSLOW Chamber Music

George Onslow’s natural melodic gift is enhanced here by the engagingly spontaneous playing of the Trio Portici and especially the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2014

LANGGAARD String Quartets Nos 1 & 5

Gramophone’s conferment of Young Artists of the Year on the Nightingale Quartet is no less than these four intrepid artists...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2014

FAURÉ; PIERNÉ Piano Trios

Gabriel Pierné’s star seems to be in the ascendant at the moment. A few months back there was a fine...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014

FAURÉ; LEKEU; RAVEL Violin Sonatas

Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe give a passionate, full-blooded performance of the Lekeu Sonata, taking on board the 22 year-old...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2014

FAURÉ; POULENC; FRANCK Violin Sonatas

It’s a shame that Saint-Saëns couldn’t have been as nice about Franck’s Violin Sonata as he was about Fauré’s (‘with...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2014

ERICKSON Complete String Quartets

This is the first music by Robert Erickson (1917 97) that I have encountered (although New World has issued several...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

BOWEN String Quartets Nos 2 & 3. Phantasy

With each recording of York Bowen’s chamber music, it becomes clear just how accomplished a composer he was. The two...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2014

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No 13. Grosse Fuge

Initial brownie points on the issue of repeats, both in the first movement (fairly crucial in my view) and the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014

BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS Piano Trios

Berlioz in his Treatise on Instrumentation and Orchestration describes the clarinet as having ‘a proud quality tempered by noble tenderness,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2014

DEBUSSY La Mer BEAMISH The Seafarer

The success of Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor may have come too late for Debussy to essay a mature...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

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