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SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 10 & 15

It might have been a terrifying set of hurdles in its time; but if today’s quartets are not awed by...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2012

ROSENBERGER Texturen

In the normal run of things, music has a beginning and an end, with a middle that you find somewhere...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2012

RESPIGHI Violin Sonatas & Pieces

Respighi is so often pigeonholed as the composer of those luminous Roman orchestral frescoes and refashionings of musical antiquity that...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW/2012

KEELING Unquiet Earth

Anyone familiar with the name of Andrew Keeling might well be so through a context other than his music, not...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: AW/2012

FELDMAN Crippled Symmetry. at June in Buffalo

It’s violinist Andreas Seidel and pianist Steffen Schleiermacher’s bad luck that their recording of Morton Feldman’s 1982 For John Cage...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2012

ENESCU Cello Sonatas

Enescu’s two cello sonatas, despite their common opus number, were composed 37 years apart. The youthful, Brahmsian First (1898) was...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW/2012

DVOŘÁK String Quartets Nos 9 & 13

It’s a slightly odd pairing, these two quartets of Dvořák – the butterfly-minded No 9, written when Dvořák was of...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW/2012

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS; HOLST; DAVIES Works for Violin and Piano

Rupert Marshall-Luck has long been a champion of overlooked English music of a certain age and this recording is a...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW/2012

SVENDSEN Octet Op 3 BRUCH Concerto for String Octet

There is a surprisingly contrasted programme on this disc, which looks at first to be a slightly esoteric survey of...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW/2012

A New Venetian Coronation, 1595

‘A Venetian Coronation’ (Virgin, 5/90), a re-creation of the music for the coronation of Doge Marino Grimani in 1595, was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2012

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