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Jeux d’été

None of the pieces here bears the title ‘Jeux d’été’ but there is a summery warmth running through the programme....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue:

Concert at the Hapsburg Court

Another bright new Baroque group takes the stage, this time from France and offering a programme of five violin sonatas...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2013

British Works for Cello and Piano, Vol 1

It is particularly gratifying to see that the rich repertoire of 19th- and early-20th-century British cello music, like its considerable...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2013

ZAREBSKI Piano Quintet

Poland’s hopes of widening international awareness of its country’s 19th-century music have long been high on the agenda but, with...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH Trios Nos 1 Op 8 & 2 Op 67 VASKS Canto Perpetuo

Peteris Vasks’s 30-minute Episodi e canto perpetuo is subtitled Hommage à O Messiaen. That’s all well and good. In fact...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2013

SCHUMANN Complete Works for Cello & Piano

The seemingly strange juxtaposition of Yun and Schumann must make a lot of sense to Isang Enders, with his mixed...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 02/2013

RIHM Complete Works for Violin and Piano

One of the disconcerting things about listening to Wolfgang Rihm’s music is the impression of a composer thinking aloud, but...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013

STRAUSS Violin Sonata Op 18 RESPIGHI Violin Sonata, P110

Both Respighi and Richard Strauss made their reputations with large-scale orchestral works, at one time described by the critics as...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2013

SMETANA Piano Trio Op 15 RAVEL Piano Trio

Spannungen, the world’s only festival in a hydroelectric power station, continues to go from strength to strength under the aegis...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2013

ORR Chamber Music for Strings

The beautifully crafted music of Buxton Orr (1924-97) has been shockingly neglected. Here is a composer, born in Scotland, who...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2013

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