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MACMILLAN Visions of a November Spring

Here we have James MacMillan’s earliest foray into the string quartet medium. Taking its title from an expression marking found...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW2014

IBERT Works for Wind

Jacques Ibert’s music is the very epitome of French style, with its ‘elegance, lightness, tonal perfection, a dash of insolence...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: AW2014

HOLLIGER Romancendres

Heinz Holliger’s attachment to the music of Robert Schumann is a facet of both these CDs. Because each sheds a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2014

HAYDN String Quartets Op 20 Nos 1, 3 & 4

Talented, technically adept and artistically very promising; but this quartet are not always consistent in interpretative foresight. And not inspiring...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW2014

GUBAIDULINA Repentance. Serenade. Piano Sonata

Repentance and Sotto voce are the downbeat titles of two recent compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina but there’s nothing apologetic or...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2014

GRIEG Cello Sonata KODÁLY Solo Cello Sonata

Danjulo Ishizaka is German-Japanese and frequently cites both cultures as deeply influential on him. In the early stages of his...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2014

FELDMAN String Quartet No 1. Structures. Three Pieces

Two other worthy versions of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No 1 (1979) – by The Group for Contemporary Music (originally...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014

BRAHMS Serenade No 1 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

This pair of one-off live performances relives and condenses the battle over music in the second half of the 19th...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2014

BRAHMS, DOHNANYI String Quartets No 1

An interesting coupling, Brahms and Dohnányi being cut from similar bales of cloth, the younger composer’s First Quartet composed in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

BLANC String Quintets Nos 3, 4 & 7

A large proportion of Adolphe Blanc’s output was chamber music, and he was much practised in it, with a strength...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2014

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