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POPPE Prozession

Enno Poppe is a force of nature in German new music. His floppy red hair and towering height are often...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2023

KAHN; d'INDY Clarinet Trios

Talk about a chamber programme scoring off the chart for niche factor. In fact it’s entirely forgivable to have never...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2023

HAYDN String Quartets Op 33 Nos 1-3 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)

Written ‘in a completely new and special way, for I haven’t composed any for 10 years’ is how Haydn touted...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2023

HAYDN Piano Trios Vol 8 (Aquinas Piano Trio)

With a little help from the Kungsbacka, the Aquinas are gradually colonising the complete Haydn keyboard trios for Naxos –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2023

DVOŘÁK Piano Trio 3. Sonatina

In a very crowded field, Dvořák’s F minor Piano Trio might be his single most neglected major chamber work: an...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2023

DONIZETTI String Quartets (Quartetto Delfico)

Hands up: I was dimly aware that Donizetti had written string quartets, but rather like Berlioz (with his insistence that...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2023

DAMASE Music For Flute, Violin, Viola and Harp

Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013) has, it would seem, divided opinion over time. Flautist Anna Noakes tells us in a booklet note...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2023

BIBER Rosary Sonatas (Meret Luthi)

Biber has been such a feature of Meret Lüthi and Les Passions de l’Âme’s recorded output of recent years that...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2023

María Dueñas: Beethoven and Beyond

María Dueñas, a Spanish violinist currently completing her two-year stint as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, isn’t the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2023

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Vänskä)

Vänskä’s Mahler Ninth arrives in the wake of Rattle’s recent Bavarian Radio recording – his third of the piece –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2023

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