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BRAHMS; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets

The Dalí Quartet and Olga Kern give a plainspoken account of Brahms’s F minor Quintet, one that’s rather short on...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022

BRAHMS Piano Quintet Op 34. String Quintet Op 111

In 2018 the Pavel Haas Quartet won their sixth Gramophone Award for a recording coupling Dvořák’s Piano Quintet (with Boris...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022

Stockholm Diary

All the composers included on this intriguing and beautiful album hail from cool climes but lived (or spent significant time)...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022

Renewal

Following up on their very well-received debut album ‘In Motion’ (2/21), the United Strings of Europe (formed by students at...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022

Raffaele La Ragione: Mandolin on Stage

Many of these performances warm into truly enjoyable interpretations, though what inspires this slowly-does-it, tentative approach, I’m not certain. Take...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2022

Simon Callaghan: British Piano Concertos

The title of this album, ‘British Piano Concertos’, may be self-effacing but the contents are anything but, with five of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022

WEINBERG Works for Cello & Orchestra. Chamber Symphony No 4 (Pieter Wispelwey)

Weinberg’s recorded coverage expands apace, this release featuring three of his concertante works in readings that eschew the asperities of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022

STOJOWSKI Symphony Op 21. Suite for Orchestra Op 9 (Wit)

It is not difficult to guess why Zygmunt (sometimes Sigismond) Stojowski’s Symphony in D minor, Op 21 (1898) failed to...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2022

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Hughes)

The second instalment of Owain Arwel Hughes’s Sibelius cycle is a pairing of the Second and Fourth Symphonies with a...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 WEILL Symphony No 2 (Shani)

An eye- (and ear-) catching coupling. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is front and centre of the core repertoire these days –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2022

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