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VALEN; HVOSLEF; EGGE Trios

Fartein Valen began planning a trio in 1912 but only began serious work on it in 1917. Progress, as often...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2013

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano

Ophélie Gaillard has always displayed an extraordinary palette of colours and these come alive more than ever on this recording...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2013

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Op 12

This is the fifth and final instalment of an interesting series that presents Beethoven’s violin sonatas in the context of...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2013

BEETHOVEN Septet Op 20 DVOŘÁK Czech Suite

A pleasant enough coupling, though not exactly helped by the somewhat cavernous acoustic of the Böserndorfer-Saal at the Vienna Mozarthaus....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2013

ABRAHAMSEN Walden/Wald

Walden is a four-movement wind quintet from 1978, rescored in 1995 to include bass clarinet and alto saxophone rather than...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2013

BRAHMS The Symphonies

Leipzig was never especially kind to Brahms. His First Piano Concerto was jeered off the stage there in 1859. Fences...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2013

WAGNER Parsifal

When this production inaugurated Dresden’s takeover of the Berlin Philharmonic’s Salzburg Easter Festival, the critical reaction gave thumbs up to...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2013

WAGNER The Colon Ring - Der Ring des Nibelungen in 7 Hours

C Major’s performance and ‘making of’ DVDs are the account of an experimental cut version of the Ring cycle given...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2013

SCHUBERT String Quintet. String Quartet No 14, ‘Death and the Maiden’

This is good. Very good. Acclaim and the Pavel Haas Quartet are familiar bedfellows – after all, they did win...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2013

ENESCU Piano Trio & Piano Quintet

Enescu’s music has been slow to achieve real recognition – at any rate outside his native Romania, though the biennial...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2013

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