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Nadia Sirota: Baroque

With a CV that takes in such new music luminaries as the chamber group Alarm Will Sound and the bands...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2013

SCHNITTKE Piano Quartet. String Trio. Piano Quintet

Soon enough we sail towards the familiar, motoric minor-toned triads, curiously reminiscent of Philip Glass but actually Old Europe: Schubert,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2013

MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas Opp 45 & 58

A few months ago I reviewed two new discs of Mendelssohn’s cello music (12/12). Ultimately, neither Luca Fiorentini (Brilliant Classics)...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2013

KISSINE Between Two Waves. Duo. Barcarola

Like Giya Kancheli, his stablemate at ECM, Victor Kissine now lives and works in Belgium, in his case since 1990....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2013

HIGDON An Exaltation of Larks. Scenes from the Poet's Dreams. Light Refracted

In terms of her profile in the UK, Jennifer Higdon is best known for such high-octane pieces as the Percussion...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2013

SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14 GRIEG String Quartet Op 2

In a booklet-note for this elegant release, Øystein Sonstad, the Quartet’s cellist, argues for Schubert’s D810 being the inspiration behind...

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

DVOŘÁK String Quartet No 12 SMETANA String Quartet No 1

Years ago I was gently castigated by a colleague for bemoaning the abundance of Beethoven symphony recordings at a time...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2013

CORP String Quartet No 3. The Yellow Wallpaper. Clarinet Quintet

Ronald Corp’s first two string quartets appeared on Naxos in 2011, played by the Maggini Quartet. The first item on...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2013

BOWEN Complete works for Violin and Piano

We can thank Danny Driver for researching and devising this latest addition to Hyperion’s absorbing York Bowen series. The programme...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013

BIBER Rosary Sonatas

There are now over a dozen recordings of Biber’s superb meditative cycle of 15 violin sonatas and a passacaglia linked...

Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 07/2013

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