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PENDERECKI String Quartets Nos 1-3 LUTOSŁAWSKI String Quartet
After their impressive traversal of the Górecki quartets (6/11), the Royal Quartet return with two further seminal Polish figures. Penderecki’s...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 05/2013
HOLMBOE Solo and Chamber Works for Guitar
Holmboe came late to the guitar but, as was the case with the accordion and recorder, once one piece was...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2013
GOLDSTEIN Cyclorama
Best known for his many and varied scores for stage and screen, Jonathan Goldstein brings a more personal perspective to...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 05/2013
FRANCK Complete Chamber Music
A four-CD set of Franck’s chamber music might come as surprise when the only works to have achieved the status...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2013
FINNISSY; ROXBURGH New Music for a New Oboe, Vol 1
Michael Finnissy’s programme notes have a tendency to make the ache of writing music sound like a walk in the...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 05/2013
GINASTERA; DVOŘÁK; SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets
Like some mid-20th century German orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra has a string quartet drawn from its principal players...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue:
CHAUVON Les nouveaux bijoux
Not even reference books on French Baroque music have much to say about François Chauvon. About all we know of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2013
CHAUSSON String Quartet, Op 35. Concert, Op 21
Chausson’s premature death in 1899 in a cycling accident left his String Quartet unfinished. Two movements were complete, with a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2013
BRIDGE Piano Quintet H49 SCOTT Piano Quintet No 1
The British Music Society originally issued these pioneer recordings of neglected works on cassette but it is welcome that they...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2013
BARTÓK Violin Sonatas
The unprecedented abundance of top-grade Bartók violin sonata recordings throws both critics and collectors into a state of heady confusion....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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