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FRANCK; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas

Played at its best, the Franck Violin Sonata presents itself as an almost through-composed piece, the wildly varying musical ideas...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014

FRANCK; GRIEG; DVOŘÁK Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Any violinist not relying on portamento to intensify the lyricism of their performance of high-Romantic chamber music is a brave...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue:

DVOŘÁK; SCHUBERT Piano Quintets

A captivating sense of teamwork permeates every second of this engaging document, vividly captured by the Erato recording engineers at...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014

DIEUPART Les Suites

Dieupart’s 1701 Six suittes de clavessin (French in style and origin, dedicated to an English duchess and published in Amsterdam)...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2014

COUPERIN Apothéoses

Couperin waited until his last decade to publish his Italian-inspired chamber music. The two largest works – apotheoses to Corelli...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2014

BEUGER tschirtner tunings for twelve

And after the silence, what next? Dutch composer and flautist Antoine Beuger has spent much of his time over the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014

BERLIOZ Harold in Italy

Though Harold in Italy is very much the main work, this issue is as much about Liszt as Berlioz. This...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2014

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Jean-Guihen Queyras isn’t the first cellist to record the Beethoven cello works with sparing use of vibrato but few of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13

Coming so soon after Praga’s reissue of the fabled second performance of this piece under Kyrill Kondrashin (1962), where the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2014

LANG Love Fail

Anonymous 4 have announced that the 2015-16 season will be their last. This is a source of great regret to...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2014

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