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Plínio Fernandes: Saudade

Saudade means a melancholy longing, and the São Paulo-born guitarist Plínio Fernandes’s debut recording is suffused with it. The repertoire...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2022

Cycles: Beethoven, Schubert, Andriessen, and Cage

The tensed, animated world of Beethoven’s Fourth Quartet (1798-1800), perhaps the darkest of the six works in his Op 18,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2022

WALTHER Scherzi da violino

Bojan Čičić and The Illyria Consort bring us two discs that cover the 12 sonatas that make up Johann Jakob...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022

PEROSI Piano Quintets Nos 1 and 2. String Trio No 2

It’s always exciting to hear the fruits of a lesser-known musical mind, and Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956) certainly doesn’t disappoint here....

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 10/2022

PAGANINI; ROLLA Chamber Music For Strings and Bassoon

It’s always nice to be reminded that Paganini was more than just razzle-dazzle virtuoso caprices and violin concertos, but this...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2022

F&F MENDELSSOHN Piano Sextet. Piano Quartet. Piano Trio

Another month, another Fanny-and-Felix pairing. Not that I’m complaining when the results are as exhilarating as this. Over the past...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022

KORNDORF The Smile of Maud Lewis

Nikolai Korndorf (1947-2001) is one of those names that has haunted the corridors of contemporary music history, so to speak,...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022

HAYDN String Quartets, Opp 42, 77 & 103

The Takács Quartet come to the end, as it were, of their slow-burn survey of Haydn’s late quartets, following recordings...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2022

CINQUE Sonatas for Three Cellos

How could it have been that, before this treat of a recording landed on my desk, I didn’t know that...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2022

DAVIES Piano Quintet SPAIN-DUNK Piano Quartet WALL Piano Quartet

Henry Walford Davies is a name known to us now for Solemn Melody and small-scale church pieces such as ‘God...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022

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