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A Tale of Two Cellos

This is expressly a CD for those who enjoy a pair of cellos, beautifully played and blended together in slow...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2013

HURLSTONE; HYDE; d'OLLONE; WIREN Piano Trios

This pair of discs on the Divine Art label brings together four consistently attractive works that defy the fashion of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2013

RASMUSSEN Motion/Emotion. Four Gardens

The music of Sunleif Rasmussen (b1961) has been attracting sustained attention in recent years, especially following the award of the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2014

MENDELSSOHN String Quartet Op 44/3. 4 Pieces fro String Quartet

The Mandelring Quartet have been garnering warm reviews for their Mendelssohn series which, enterprisingly, encompasses the complete string chamber music...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2014

SCHULHOFF; SIBELIUS; JANÁČEK String Quartets

The Henschel Quartet have always known their own minds and so it is hardly surprising that they should have put...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2014

Ramon Humet: Niwa

One of the misfortunes in new music is that relatively few composers from south-western Europe have gained wider prominence, thus...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2014

HANDEL Trio Sonatas Op 2

In about 1730-31 the London publisher John Walsh issued a collection of six Handel trio sonatas called ‘Opus 2’, for...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2014

BLOCH; JANÁČEK; SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Sonatas

Midori brings her highly accomplished manner to three works very different in their demands. She is sweet rather than impassioned...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 01/2014

SCHUMANN Complete Violin Sonatas

Anyone familiar with Christian Tetzlaff’s Gramophone Award-winning recording of Schumann’s piano trios (EMI, 7/11) will not be surprised to hear...

Reviewed in issue 01/2014

Emmanuel Pahud : Around the World

‘Around the World’ takes us to Hungary/Romania (Bartók), India (Ravi Shankar), France (Christian Rivet), Germany/England (Handel), Spain (Ohana), America (Carter),...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2013

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