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Il Violino Boemo: Music from 18th Century Prague

For this recital, Lenka Torgersen and her colleagues bring together three 18th-century violinist-composers born in what is now the Czech...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014

Sonic Philosophy: Colour and Affect

With its high-flown title and highly abstract booklet-notes, some listeners might be put off from sampling this album. However, I’d...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014

British Rhapsody: Music for Viola and Piano

This disc, on the ever-enterprising Stone label, brings together an attractive collection of rare viola music by British composers. It...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2014

WEINBERG Complete Violin Sonatas Vol 2

Although it bears little resemblance to that of Shostakovich, the music of Mieczysław Weinberg nevertheless expounds similar values: the grim...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2014

TELEMANN Double Concerto for Wind and Strings

Those who think that Telemann was a skilful, formulaic Baroque note-spinning concerto machine need to hear his music played by...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2014

STANFORD Complete works for Violin and Piano

There have been, in the last 20 years or so, a number of recordings of Stanford’s music for violin and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014

CPE BACH Magnificat

The Heilig (ie Sanctus) for double choir turns up on this Harmonia Mundi recording that recreates part of a Hamburg...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014

SCHUBERT String Quintet

Another month, another Schubert C major Quintet. For any new version to make its mark it has to be pretty...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014

Alvin Lucier: No Ideas But in Things

Standing by a piano, holding a teapot – and with an impish glint in his eye that is unmistakably reminiscent...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2014

KORNGOLD Sextet for Strings. Suite

It is an inspired idea to couple these two contrasting works, separated as they were by momentous events. Korngold’s Sextet...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2014

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