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Review of Alvin Lucier: No Ideas But in Things

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

Review of KORNGOLD Sextet for Strings. Suite

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

Review of KORNGOLD Piano Trio SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

KORNGOLD Piano Trio SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

This must be a unique coupling. Schoenberg’s irrefutable masterpiece continues to prosper in the studio: standard recommendations would include the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014

Review of HINDEMITH Sonata for Solo Cello. Works for Cello and Piano

HINDEMITH Sonata for Solo Cello. Works for Cello and Piano

Up until now, Wendy Warner’s programme for Bridge of the essential Hindemith chamber pieces for cello has been by some...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2014

Review of GRIEG Piano Quintet FINNISSY Grieg Quintettsatz

GRIEG Piano Quintet FINNISSY Grieg Quintettsatz

Michael Finnissy is Mr Complexity, whose crunchy five-hour piano cycle The History of Photography in Sound was reviewed in Gramophone’s...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2014

Review of COUPERIN Les Nations REBEL Les Caracteres de la danse

COUPERIN Les Nations REBEL Les Caracteres de la danse

The superb early-18th-century chamber music of François Couperin and Jean-Féry Rebel – and a number of their French contemporaries –...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2014

Review of STRAVINSKY Petrushka BRAHMS 16 Waltzes PIAZZOLLA 4 Tangos

STRAVINSKY Petrushka BRAHMS 16 Waltzes PIAZZOLLA 4 Tangos

Pardon the cliché, but here’s a husband-and-wife piano duo who make beautiful music together. In Stravinsky’s duet reduction of Petrushka,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2014

Review of TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The B flat minor Concerto has been recorded so many times that you may justifiably ask if we really need...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014

Review of BOWEN Piano Trio. Clarinet Sonata. Rhapsody Trio

BOWEN Piano Trio. Clarinet Sonata. Rhapsody Trio

The revival in fortune (in the recording studio, at any rate) of the consistently warm-hearted and delectably polished music of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014

Review of HINDEMITH String Trio No 2 BOULANGER 2 Pieces for Piano Trio

HINDEMITH String Trio No 2 BOULANGER 2 Pieces for Piano Trio

I have a confession to make. Hindemith’s music really makes me angry. Not just mildly irritable but full-blown chucking-scores-at-the-speakers annoyed....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014

 

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