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Love Is Like a Violin: Salon Treasures from the Max Jaffa Library

For those in far-flung foreign places and younger readers, the name of Max Jaffa may be unfamiliar. Born in London...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW22

Guéthary

The seaside town of Guéthary lies on the south-west coast of France in the region known as the Basque Country....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW22

The Enescu Project

This might be more precisely named ‘The Enescu Octet Project’, since it was prompted by Nicolas Dautricourt’s chance discovery (in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW22

PUCCINI; TCHAIKOVSKY; VERDI String Quartets

Formed in 2017 by the orchestra’s section leaders at the suggestion of Daniel Barenboim, the Berlin Staatskapelle Quartet make their...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW22

MOZART String Quartets, Vol 5 (Armida Quartet)

‘Some of the most extraordinarily gawky music that [Mozart], so rarely in the slightest awkward, ever wrote.’ Thus Paul Griffiths...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW22

MENDELSSOHN Compete String Quartets, Vol 1 (Quatuor van Kuijk)

This is a golden age for Mendelssohn string quartets, once treated with faint condescension but now recognised as arguably the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW22

MARAIS La gamme

When Marais published La gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie in 1723, he was 67 years old. He would die...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW22

BRIDGE; BRITTEN; DEBUSSY Cello Sonatas (Truls Mørk)

Nearly a quarter of a century since recording Britten’s three Solo Suites (Erato, 4/01) and re-recording the Cello Symphony (12/99),...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW22

BIBER Sonatae Violino Solo 1681

As much as Biber’s Rosary (or Mystery) Sonatas of c1674 are wonderful, it does seem a shame that we only...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW22

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios, Op 1 Nos 1 & 2 (Rautio Piano Trio)

‘That bass line was meant to sound gruff! These semiquavers scatter effortlessly in the upper register.’ Pianist Jan Rautio offers...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW22

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