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WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 3 (Arcadia Quartet)

The Arcadia Quartet continue their cycle of string quartets by Mieczysław Weinberg (previous volumes were reviewed in 3/21 and 5/22)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023

TURNAGE Winter's Edge

No doubt many of us still think of Mark-Anthony Turnage and his music as incorrigibly urban, yet it is more...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2023

LIGETI Metamorphosis (Quatuor Diotima)

When listening to Ligeti’s pre-Cologne music – which is, of course, not the music he became famous for – part...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2023

KNOX Open Spaces

With his background as a viola player in Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Arditti Quartet, together with such enterprising collections as...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 42, 77. Seven Last Words

The London Haydn Quartet reaches the end of its period-instrument Hyperion Haydn cycle: well, almost – they still have to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2023

Bracing Change 2

Three string quartets by three composers performed by three different groups. In this sense, ‘Bracing Change 2’ is no different...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2023

GASSMANN Oboe Quartets and Quintets GYROWETZ Flute Quartets

’Twas on a Monday morning the gasman came to call’, sang Flanders & Swann. Many years ago, I chose Florian...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2023

JS BACH Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (Adrian Butterfield)

Harpsichordist Silas Wollston opens the Sonata in B minor, BWV1014, with particular evocation (a make or break moment, really, when...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023

Virtuosity and Grace. Sonatas For Viola da Gamba

Surely this is the first recording devoted solely to the works for viola da gamba and keyboard by Carl Philipp...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2023

AUERBACH 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano (Christine Bernsted)

The Soviet-born Austrian-American novelist, poet, composer, conductor and concert pianist Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for violin and piano were completed...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2023

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