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CORELLI Concerti Grossi Op 6

This double set completes the Avison Ensemble’s survey of Corelli’s published opuses. Both of these Roman publications contain 12 trio...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014

PIZZETTI; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Violin Sonatas

The Italy of the 1920s was not a good place to be. Luckily, though, jazz was starting to enjoy some...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014

CAMPBELL Things You Already Know

'Personal music demands personal music tools,’ writes the American composer Chris Campbell as he outlines how his new album pulls...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2014

BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet. Clarinet Trio

Contradictions rule. Brahms’s biographer Florence May (1905) says of the Clarinet Quintet: ‘The tone of gentle loving regret that prevails...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord

Repeated listening to Bach’s Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord deepens one’s sense of their formal variety within a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014

ARRIAGA Complete String Quartets

Not knowing anything about this repertoire or the personality behind it, one’s initial reaction is a unique convergence of musical...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014

WALTON Symphony No 1. Violin Concerto

Edward Gardner presides over blisteringly eloquent and splendidly unbuttoned accounts of both these Walton masterworks, the First Symphony’s vehement opening...

Reviewed in issue 07/2014

JS BACH Orchestral Suites and Concertos

Borrowing, adapting, transcribing: Bach was a master at this game. So why would he, who borrowed from others and from...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014

Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Stravinsky’s famous memorial to Debussy may be the title-track here but the main interest in this vividly played programme lies...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

Tzimon Barto: Paganini Variations, Paganini Rhapsody

All six Grandes Etudes de Paganini are a comparative rarity on disc. Gary Graffman’s 1959 traversal (Sony, 4/65) is brilliantly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014

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