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SAINT-SAËNS Piano Quartet, Op 41. Piano Quintet, Op 14. Barcarolle, Op 108

The tightly worked counterpoint in the second movement of the B flat Piano Quartet exposes Saint-Saëns’s learned side but he...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2013

PROKOFIEV Complete Works for Violin & Piano

These musicians of rare versatility perform regularly as a duo. Bringing this successful partnership so tangibly into the listening room...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2013

MESSIAEN Préludes SAARIAHO Je sens un deuxième cœur

A mixed programme of Messiaen and Saariaho piano and chamber music may present something of a shelving quandary. But the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2013

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

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