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SHOSTAKOVICH; SZYMANOWSKI Violin Sonatas

These works, from either end of their composers’ output, make for an unlikely yet effective pairing. Szymanowski’s Violin Sonata (1909)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014

RUDERS Romances. 13 Postludes. Schrödinger's Cat

At the heart of this disc are the 12 canons for violin and guitar whimsically titled Schrödinger’s Cat; whimsically, because...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2014

MONK Piano Songs

Meredith Monk’s music for both solo piano and piano duo is rooted in her unique singing style, which encompasses a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014

MENDELSSOHN String Quintets

This is the final volume in the Mandelring Quartet’s complete survey of Mendelssohn’s chamber music for strings, and as its...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

LANG The Anatomy of Disaster (Monadologie IX)

In the May 2014 issue of Gramophone, I recommended you check out Bernhard Lang’s Monadologie XII – the vocabulary of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014

HOWELLS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3. Cradle Song

Since the pioneering recording of Howells’s three violin sonatas, Opp 18, 26 and 38, by Paul Barritt and Catherine Edwards...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2014

DUPONT Poème. Journée de printemps

Gabriel Dupont, who lived to the age of only 36 before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1914, is one of those...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas. Clarinet Trio

Non-committed beginnings, and a whiff of detachment pervades the first movement of the E minor Cello Sonata. Ian Brown keeps...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2014

BIBER Mystery Sonatas

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s so-called Mystery Sonatas are the best-known works of a composer superficially remembered for the extreme virtuosity...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

John Ogdon – The Complete RCA Album Collection

RCA/Sony Classical’s six-CD album of John Ogdon’s complete RCA Red Seal recordings plus an additional Liszt recital from Japan coincides...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014

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