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Maria Ioudenitch: Songbird

Unlike most young violinists who devote their debut CDs to flashy repertoire, Maria Ioudenitch puts forth the proposition that the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2023

1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli & Pisendel

1723. Are you racking your brains as to what exactly happened 300 years ago that was worthy of an album-shaped...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2023

MOZART; WIDMANN Clarinet Quintets

Jörg Widmann has performed Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet with the Hagen Quartet ‘countless times’, according to the booklet. In 2009 the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023

KORNGOLD String Quartets Nos 1-3 (Tippett Quartet)

Hans Keller used to talk about ‘insiders’ of the string quartet: string-playing composers with an instinctive understanding of quartet textures....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2023

FRANCK Cello Sonata STROHL Titus et Bérénice (Sandra Lied Haga)

Norwegian cellist Sandra Lied Haga opts for a French programme for her recital with Katya Apekisheva, juxtaposing the familiar Franck/Delsart...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023

FRANCK; MARTIN Piano Quintets

César Franck’s Piano Quintet has notoriously divided opinion since it was first heard in January 1880, when Saint-Saëns, sight-reading his...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas (Weithaas)

Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon highlight the Kreutzer Sonata’s fantasia-like, improvisatory qualities. Thus, while Isabelle Faust plays the opening four-bar...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2023

BEETHOVEN; BERWALD Septets

The early 19th century couldn’t get enough of Beethoven’s Septet, to the composer’s mounting irritation (‘too much sentimentality and too...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2023

BAUMBUSCH Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet

The sounds of gamelan instruments were first heard in the US at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and it’s close...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2023

Prism V - Beethoven, Webern, Bach

You need your wits about you and the volume up to catch the head-motif opening Webern’s String Quartet of 1905,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2023

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