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SOMIS Violin Sonatas Op 1

Giovanni Battista Somis (1686-1763), pupil of Corelli and teacher of Leclair, Pugnani and many others, has always been seen as...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: AW2014

SCHUBERT Sonatinas for Violin and Piano

Summing up much of what came before and predicting some of what was to come, Schubert’s three sonatinas for violin...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014

RÖNTGEN Chamber Music

Julius Röntgen wrote almost three dozen works for violin and piano, seven more for violin solo. A few have appeared...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio Op 50 RACHMANINOV Trio élégiaque

By the time Rachmaninov wrote his first Trio élégiaque, Tchaikovsky had already established the in memoriam mood that was to...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014

MOZART String Quartets Nos 14, 16 & 19

Mozart’s 1785 dedication of six quartets to Haydn reads: ‘May it therefore please you to receive them kindly and to...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW2014

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

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