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Orion Weiss: Arc II - Ravel; Brahms; Shostakovich

As with ‘Arc I’ (6/22), ‘Arc II’ showcases Orion Weiss’s imaginative programme-building and intelligent artistry. He’s obviously pondered over each...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Fazil Say; Tianqi Du)

Warner/Erato continues to feed the market with Bach Goldberg Variations piano releases, from recent versions by Dong-Hyek Lim (11/08), Alexandre...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023

Beau Soir: Debussy; Satie; Ravel; Poulenc

The latest release in an ongoing collaboration between Delphian and Young Concert Artists Trust, ‘Beau soir’ highlights the talents of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2023

SCHUMANN The Three Violin Sonatas (Andrew Wan)

Recordings of all three of Schumann’s violin sonatas come round less often than you might imagine, so it’s pleasing to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2023

SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 10 & 15 (Jubilee Quartet)

For the Jubilee’s leader Tereza Privratska, Schubert’s last quartet is ‘filled with the emotions of a dying man expressing so...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2023

LOCKE The Little Consort

An intriguing recording: on first playing, I found this album difficult to get into, an experience that felt as if...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2023

KANER Chamber Music

Matthew Kaner (b1986) studied music at King’s College London before moving on to postgraduate studies with Julian Anderson at the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

IVANSCHIZ Chamber Music at the Abbey of Lambach

Sadly, there is very little to recommend here. Violinist Gunar Letzbor and Ars Antiqua Austria bring us chamber music by...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2023

GRIEG; KÖRVITS; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Duo Gazzana)

This feels – to use a footballing analogy – like an album of two halves. In the first, we have...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

DELIUS; SMYTH String Quartets

Among Delius’s earliest works from the late 1880s, when he was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory, was a String...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2023

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