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Quartet Choreography

Any release spunky enough to embrace Ligeti’s and Finnissy’s Second Quartets – not to mention Stravinsky’s Three Pieces and Lutosławski’s...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

Martha Argerich & Friends Live from Lugano 2011

Now that Martha Argerich has all but abandoned the recording studio (and the solo recital platform) for chamber projects with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2012

ULLMANN disappearing musics. solo I + II + III

Jakob Ullmann writes music that’s hardly there. Born 1958 in Freiberg, residual traces of Nono, Lachenmann and Cage meander around...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

SCHUBERT String Quartets – No 13, ‘Rosamunde’, D804; No 14, ‘Death and the Maiden’, D810

Schubert’s Rosamunde and Death and the Maiden create one of the starkest pairings of string quartets, displaying startling contrasts and...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2012

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Opp 12 & 13

As this is the first in the Mandelring Quartet’s complete cycle of Mendelssohn’s string quartets, plain chronological order may well...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2012

SAINT-SAËNS; LOEVENDIE; RAVEL Piano Trios

Ravel, it seems, made a careful study of the piano trios of Saint-Saëns before embarking on his own in 1914....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2012

R JONES Chamber Airs for a Violin

In the early 1990s there was a rash of discs of little-known Baroque instrumental music issued on mainstream labels, either...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2012

HAYDN String Quartet, Op 51 'Seven Last Words'

The billing might initially suggest a radical take on Haydn’s lofty Passion meditations. What we get, though, is a modest...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2012

HAYDN String Quartet Op 64/6 SCHUMANN String Quartet Op 41/1

Slender tone, soft, delicate and withdrawn greets you at the start of Schumann’s First Quartet, the Introduzione played Andante espressivo...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2012

FAURÉ Piano Quartets Vol 2

What a glorious work the First Piano Quartet is, here given a reading that abounds in warmth and geniality. Sample...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2012

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