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ESPOSITO Violin and Cello Sonatas

Champs Hill Records’ exploration of chamber music byways continues apace, alighting here on four uncomplicated and rather pretty sonatas by...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

ENESCU Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Rarely can two works that share the one opus number have hailed from such different musical worlds, in the case...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014

ELGAR Music for Powick Asylum

For all Elgar Liebhaber, those crucial years of his autodidactic apprenticeship in Worcester seem endlessly intriguing, particularly in how he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2014

Elliott Carter: 103rd Birthday Concert

Eight decades after he completed his first acknowledged composition – a song he called ‘My love is in a light...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2014

BRAHMS. SCHUMANN. REINECKE Chamber Works with Horn

There are (in my view) two contributions to the horn repertory that stand out above all others: Mozart’s four captivating...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2014

BERTEAU Sonatas and Airs for Solo Cello

Martin Berteau (1708 71) gave up the great French tradition of bass viol-playing in favour of the cello after hearing...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Opp 11 & 38

Not always profound Beethoven, but genuine Beethoven all the same. With a connection too: the theme from the second movement...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014

BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Violin Nos 1-5

Strangely miked, oddly presented. David Breitman is placed due right, Paul McNulty’s copy of an Anton Walter fortepiano stuck in...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014

WAGNER Overtures and Arias

Germany, and Bayreuth in particular, were not exactly forthcoming with official releases for Wagner 200 year. Thielemann, the festival’s de...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2014

VINCI Alto Arias

The Florentine countertenor Filippo Mineccia presents 14 alto arias for both male and female characters drawn from nine different works,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

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