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POPPER Complete Suites for Cello

David Popper (1843-1913) was a Bohemian cellist whose work as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher was lauded all over...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014

MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Mendelssohn’s music for cello and piano runs the full gamut, from simple lyrical pieces to large-scale Beethovenian sonata structures. This...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012

MARTELLI String Quartets Nos 1&2

Anyone familiar with the repertory played by string quartets at weddings will have heard the clever and idiomatic popular song...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012

LOCKE The Broken Consort Part 1

The Wayward Sisters are an edgy new American ensemble specialising in Baroque music. Sisters in spirit maybe – their trusty...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014

KAGEL Piano Trios Nos 1-3

First off, it’s worth saluting this young trio for making its CD debut with music as non-commercial as this. The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2014

IYER Mutations

Vijay Iyer is the newly installed Franklin D and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard. His background is...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 76 No 1; 50 No 1 & 77 No 1

As recently as the March issue I was pondering the thought processes involved in choosing a 60-plus-minute recital of Haydn’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2014

GAUBERT Works for Violin, Cello

The booklet-note by no means downplays the promise of this disc. ‘One will discover with stupefaction an authentic masterpiece,’ it...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014

FELDMAN For Philip Guston

If you consider Morton Feldman to be a challenging listen then take it from me, you don’t know the half...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2014

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

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