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GOEBBELS Stifters Dinge

Heiner Goebbels’s title might be recondite, though as a ‘performative installation’, first staged in Luxembourg in 2007, Stifters Dinge preaches...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2012

DEBUSSY String Quartet, Op 10 RAVEL String Quartet

The La Dolce Volta label sets its sights high. Each disc, it says, ‘is conceived in a limited edition as...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012

DEBUSSY Chamber Music with Winds

Though Debussy was known to transcribe his own works in piano reductions ranging from Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012

T DAVIES Spine

Tansy Davies came into her own on disc with ‘Troubairitz’ (7/11) and this new release rounds out her output in...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012

Morava: String Quartets

The absorption of folk tunes into the high-art music of most composers trying to assert their national identity is always...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 1-10

Although written over a fairly condensed stretch of time (they don’t cover his whole career but rather the prolific, pre-deafness...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH Organ Trio Sonatas BWV525-530

It seems surprising that so many Baroque chamber groups overlook the potential for transforming the six ‘trio sonatas’ for organ...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

Now this is something very special, and it marks an exciting debut for Leif Ove Andsnes on Sony after his...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012

Love and Longing

Ravel’s Shéhérazade and the five Rückert songs by Mahler offer the more conventional pleasures on this disc but Madgalena Kožená’s...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2012

RAUTAVAARA Cello Concerto No 2. Percussion Concerto

As three works are listed on this superbly recorded new Ondine release, buyers may be surprised to learn that, in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2012

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