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WOLF String Quartet. Intermezzo. Italian Serenade

Hugo Wolf began his D minor Quartet in 1878; it was to occupy him for six years. Aged 18, he...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2013

WEINBERG Complete Sonatas and Works for Violin & Piano

This near-complete set of Weinberg’s violin-and-piano works fills a significant gap in his discography (I say near-complete, because the two...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2013

VIVALDI Solo Violin Sonatas

In two quite different ways this is something of an assemblage. To an extent that was not untypical of the...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2013

SCHUBERT The Complete Works for Fortepiano Trio

Period-instrument versions of Schubert’s piano trios are still relatively thin on the ground, so any new one is worth careful...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2013

SCHUBERT Complete works for violin and piano

These performances exhibit that feeling of spontaneous enjoyment which animated Ibragimova and Tiberghien’s live Beethoven set from the Wigmore Hall...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2013

TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

I had more than a few misgivings about the recent version of Souvenir de Florence from Sarah Nemtanu and friends....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013

MOZART Oboe Quartet. Oboe Concerto

While this is a disc of fairly central repertoire, it is also one of uncommon distinction in terms of performance....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2013

MANTOVANI Chamber Music

Paul Klee’s ‘taking a line for a walk’ has been cited by many composers, though the result invariably underlines the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2013

LECLAIR Flute and Violin Sonatas

In an era when many French composers produced Italianate sonatas, Leclair wrote with the particular authority he gained from having...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2013

HAYDN String Quartet Op 76 No 2 SCHUBERT String Quartet D810, 'Death and the Maiden'

There is an exciting combination of influences in this first recording of the all-female Dutch quartet, although the fact that...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2013

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