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CAVALLI Il Xerse (Sardelli)

Here is another opera more familiar from the history books than in the theatre. It was staged in the Louvre...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2023

Munich Opera Horns: Voyager

If you love the sound of German-Romantic horns, this album is for you. Topped and tailed by two miniatures for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2023

James Ehnes: Mythes

‘Life-enhancing’ was how Richard Bratby described James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong’s Beethoven sonata cycle for Onyx on the release of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2023

Modern Horn Trios

Ligeti’s Horn Trio (1982) is one of the most powerful musical memorials to a troubled time, just before the retreat...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2023

STAMITZ Trios Op 14 (L'Apothéose)

We’ve met Carl Philipp Stamitz already in this issue – see my Clarinet Focus on page 38. This set of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2023

SHOLDICE The Blue Light

Among the glut of talented Irish composers who’ve come through recently, Garrett Sholdice is one of the standouts. Having been...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2023

SCHUMANN Piano Trios Vol 2

This second volume completes the Kungsbacka’s eminently satisfying survey of Schumann’s music for piano trio. The Third Trio of 1851...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2023

PENDERECKI String Quartets. Clarinet Quartet. String Trio

Penderecki’s works for string quartet cover the whole of his creative life, the first acknowledged one dating from 1960 and...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2023

PANDOLFI MEALLI Violin Sonatas Opp 3 & 4 (Eva Saladin)

This is the second solo album from violinist Eva Saladin. Her first (Glossa) explored 17th-century violin sonatas from the so-called...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2023

MOZART Violin Sonatas (Renaud Capuçon)

When is a violin sonata not a violin sonata? When it’s by Mozart, we’re told, the idea with him, metaphorically...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023

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