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BEETHOVEN String Trio Op 3. Serenade Op 8

The acknowledged masterpieces among Beethoven’s string trios are the three that form Op 9. Trio Zimmermann have already recorded those...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2014

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 3

I got my first taste of the Quartetto di Cremona in a survey of Beethoven chamber music last summer. Now...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2014

BARTÓK Chamber Works for Violin Vol 3

Annotator Paul Griffiths imaginatively suggests that rather than calling his ‘clarinet trio’ Contrasts, Bartók might have opted for the more...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

JS BACH Six Trio Sonatas BWV525-530

That Bach himself routinely arranged his own works and those of others licenses enterprising modern performers to do likewise. Tempesta...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2014

JS BACH Viola da gamba Sonatas, BWV1027-1029

Bach’s ‘Gamba Sonatas’ on viola and accordion? Yes, but given that sometimes the surviving instrumentation of many Bach pieces can...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014

Characters

‘Characters’ is the title of this collection of mostly concertos, implying that there is no clever musicological thread here; each...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014

WEINBERG Symphony No 18. Trumpet Concerto

One of Weinberg’s most Socialist Realist symphonies is here interestingly coupled with the most experimental of his six concertos. Admittedly,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1. The Tempest

The Tempest and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto: an odd coupling but, hey, why not? Tchaikovsky’s emotionally charged symphonic fantasy comes...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014

STENHAMMER Serenade. Excelsior!

Wilhelm Stenhammar has never really had his due. Overshadowed by his Nordic contemporaries Grieg, Nielsen and Sibelius, his productivity hampered...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2014

SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen Suite. The Wood-Nymph

Four Legends (from the Kalevala), Lemminkäinen Suite, Lemminkäinen Legends – none of the popular titles for this tetralogy better Sibelius’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2014

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