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An die Musik: Works for Cello & Piano

Cellists are fully warranted in their appropriation, via the art of transcription, of works for other instruments. After all, violinists...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2024

SHAW Rectangles and Circumstance

Caroline Shaw’s association with percussion quartet Sō Percussion goes back to their graduate school days at Yale University some 20...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024

SCHUMANN String Quartets. Piano Quintet

As musical birthday presents go, Schumann’s three string quartets vie with Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll – both were dedicated to the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024

HUBER Piano Quintets Nos 1 & 2

Swiss composer Hans Huber (1852-1921) – whose output included five operas, eight symphonies (recorded two decades and more ago by...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024

GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN String Quartets Nos 7-10

Reviewing Volume 1 of this cycle (5/19), Andrew Mellor welcomed the ‘tight, no-nonsense and considered performances’ by the Nordic Quartet....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024

GIPPS Piper of Dreams: Chamber Music for Oboe

No doubt as to the standout item on this latest volume from Chandos devoted to the music of Ruth Gipps...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024

FELDMAN Complete Music for Cello and Piano (Stephen Marotto)

The title of Patterns in a Chromatic Field invites a visual analogy to the American school of abstract expressionism that...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024

BRAHMS String Quintets (Gringolts Quartet, Lilli Maijala)

To tackle Op 111 first, one of the truly great string quintets, the upper strings’ pulsing semiquavers (cast in 9/8...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 3 (Sitkovetsky Trio)

Just as in his symphonies, Beethoven found a new character, a new mode of expression for each of his piano...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2024

BARTÓK; DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintets

It’s always good to see the music of Ernst von Dohnányi paired with his more celebrated contemporaries. There was more...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2024

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