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MOZART Complete Works for Clarinet, Vol 1 (Nicolas Baldeyrou)

‘On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse – bassoons and basset-horns – like...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2025

MARAIS Sonnerie De Sainte-Genevieve Du Mont

Marin Marais’s 1723 collection La gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie comes between his fourth (1717) and fifth (1725) Livres...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2025

HAYDN Piano Trios Vol 4 (Trio Gaspard)

All four Haydn piano trios collected here are from late in the composer’s career but none might really be counted...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2025

HAHN Piano Quintet. Songs. Piano Quartet

The music of Reynaldo Hahn is well known to song enthusiasts – who doesn’t adore the delectable ‘À Chloris?’ –...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2025

GÓRECKI Complete String Quartets (Silesian Quartet)

Once upon a time (ie in 2008) there was a major record label called EMI. Its ambitious Polish branch published...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 04/2025

DVOŘÁK String Quartets Vol 5 (Vogler Quartett)

‘He always enjoyed a tavern sextet’, recalled Dvořák’s friend Josef Zubatý, and the fledgling composer played more than his share...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2025

DUPRÉ Piano and Chamber Works

A quick canter through the pages of Gramophone reveals that scant attention has been paid to Marcel Dupré’s chamber and...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2025

CONNOLLY Music for Strings

Justin Connolly’s death four years ago was the impetus for this project, led by former colleagues at the Royal Academy...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2025

COLL 'A Portrait'

He first attracted attention when studying with Thomas Adès but Francisco Coll (b1985) has since evolved a distinctive persona, as...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2025

CERRONE Don't Look Down

Had Edgard Varèse been born a minimalist and lived in this century, his music may well have sounded a little...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2025

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