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DEBUSSY En blanc et noir. MESSIAEN Visions de l'Amen

It was an inspired idea in 2010 for Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal to pair these two major 20th-century French...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2012

F DAVID String Quartets Nos 1, 2 & 4

Félicien David, an ardent devotee of the early-19th-century utopian Saint-Simonian social movement, upped and went to Egypt with the group...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2012

CASTELLO; FONTANA Sonatas

The durability of John Holloway and Lars Mortensen’s musical collaboration, and the length of their relationship with this music, gives...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2012

BRAHMS; MENDELSSOHN; SCHUMANN Clarinet Sonatas

Stark octaves from the piano in the opening bars of Brahms’s First Sonata may not be quite the preparation for...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2012

BOULEZ Mémoriale. Dérive 1 & 2

In 2006 Elliott Carter’s longevity and Pierre Boulez’s slow-coach approach to composition met in the middle, when Carter, then 98,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2012

RAVEL. FAURÉ Piano Trios

The novelty on this disc is sandwiched between the masterpieces of Ravel and Fauré. Mel Bonis was a Frenchwoman, born...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Trios

This is the Trio Wanderer’s 25th-birthday present to itself, and within the slimline package lie riches indeed. We begin with...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012

AYRES Harmogram Suite

The name of Marvin Ayres was unfamiliar to me but his website (www.marvinayres.com) informs me that he has ‘composed and...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2012

Waltzer Revolution

Though full symphony orchestras may serve mature Viennese waltzes reasonably faithfully, they give little idea of the rawer, more primitive...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 07/2012

RAVEL Piano Concerto

Both these fine ‘atypical projects’ are related by their inclusion of Ravel’s G major Concerto which, as Philip Clark points...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2012

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