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Une Prière

The piano trio that is Ensemble Contraste has come up with several resourceful miscellanies over the years and none more...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2022

Omar Tomasoni: Intrada

A new generation of outstanding continental trumpet players is making its mark, not least in the refreshingly fluid way in...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2022

Sebastian Bohren: La Folia

I understand the concept for the album. Sebastian Bohren wishes to pay homage to violinists of the late 19th and...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2022

Eclogue: British Chamber Music

All but three of the dozen items for solo instruments and string orchestra that make up this diverting programme from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2022

Corazón: the Music of Latin America

John-Henry Crawford won First Prize in the 2019 Carlos Prieto Competition, held in Morelia, Mexico – an experience that Crawford...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022

A Cembalo Certato E Violino Solo

JS Bach’s six sonatas for violin and harpsichord are not as prolifically recorded as his Solo Sonatas and Partitas. Not...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2022

TANEYEV String Trio. Piano Quartet

There are two kinds of people: those who have never heard of Sergey Taneyev and those who can’t get enough...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 09/2022

HAYDN Complete Piano Trios Vol 1 (Trio Gaspard)

Great music, boring cello parts was the traditional verdict on Haydn’s keyboard trios. If you got to know these glorious...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2022

Vagues et ombres

Debussy’s music has proved particularly attractive to arrangers, perhaps unsurprisingly since so many of his orchestral works were collective collaborations...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022

CHOPIN; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas (Jean-Guihen Queyras)

According to Isabelle Rouard’s booklet note, Ignaz Moscheles described Chopin’s Cello Sonata as like ‘a wild overgrown forest, into which...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022

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