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Hispania & Japan

In many ways a sequel to ‘Road to the Orient’ (1/08), tracing the travels of St Francis Xavier, this delicately...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2011

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

This fascinating film, which has already won the 2009 Berner Film Prize, is the result of Peter Guyer and Norbert...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2011

'Around Jacob van Eyck'

Jacob van Eyck is known only from Der Fluyten Lust-hof, two volumes containing some 140 unaccompanied variation-sets for soprano recorder,...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2011

REICH WTC 9/11. Mallet Quartet. Dance Patterns

It’s not surprising that composers feel drawn to commemorate shattering events taking place in their midst – it goes back...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2011

ONSLOW Complete Piano Trios Volumes 3 & 4

CPO is a great champion of the second-rate and the Anglo-French composer George Onslow, born 14 years after Beethoven and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2011

CARDEW Solo Without Accompaniment FREY Exact Dimension..

Since the dawn of modernism – make that since the dawn of any activity that those involved were minded to...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011

BRAHMS Viola Sonatas

Though Brahms’s Op 120 Sonatas were composed for clarinet and piano, they belong just as firmly to the viola repertoire....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2011

BLACKFORD Concerto for Recorder and String Quartet HURD Violin Sonata

This recital brings together a sequence of 10 brief works by three British composers, in music above all designed to...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2011

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata 1. String Quartet No 15

Late Bach and Beethoven make compelling bedfellows, particularly when linked by the medium of the string quartet; these are live...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2011

BARTÓK 'An evening in the village'

When the late, great Buddy Rich was being prepped for heart surgery near the end of his life, his anaesthetist...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011

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