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MENDELSSOHN String Quintets Nos 1 & 2

The Leipzig Quartet have already abundantly proved their Mendelssohn credentials with a cycle of the quartets. Now, joined by viola...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2013

MEDTNER Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 3

Medtner’s three violin-and-piano sonatas represent his only substantial chamber works. He was a gifted pianist but, as listeners will soon...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: AW2013

LIGETI String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

Paul Griffiths’s candy-coated booklet-notes employ flowery ad-man doublespeak – ‘How times have changed. How a recording can change them’ –...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2013

Josef Špaček plays Smetana, Janáček & Prokofiev

Prokofiev’s remarkable F minor Violin Sonata cannot but dominate this well-arranged recital and is rightly placed last. Though there will...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: AW2013

HAYDN String Quartets Op 33, 'Russian'

The London Haydn Quartet reach the landmark Op 33 in their survey of Haydn’s string quartets played from editions of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2013

CORELLI Chamber Sonatas Opp 2 & 4

The Avison Ensemble continue their stunning Corelli anniversary recording project with two of the less-often-recorded opuses, the sonate da camera....

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2013

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3

The Armenian brother-and-sister team give passionate, deeply felt performances of all three sonatas. Recorded in London’s Wigmore Hall, the sound...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: AW2013

BEETHOVEN Woodwind Trios

Not quite the surgery without anaesthetic as of later years. But WoO37 for flute, bassoon and piano from the teenage...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW2013

JS BACH The Art of Fugue, BWV1080

In 2002 Fretwork garnered deserved praise for their viol consort version of Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Many fine solo...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2013

Sempre libera

Ritzily presented in rock-style black cover with fold-out insert and plentiful glamour photos, this not-so-common CD from Norwegian Opera forces...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2013

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