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JS BACH 6 Suites a Violoncello Solo Senza Basso (Giuliano Carmignola)

Bach’s Cello Suites, or movements from them, have luxuriated in versions for harpsichordists, gambists, guitarists, viola players and latterly for...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW22

Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Song

Last year’s album of Rachmaninov and Barber sonatas from Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason (‘Muse’ – 11/21) included a selection of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW22

Niek Baar: Obsession

The young Dutch violinist Niek Baar’s name was a new one to me when this debut album landed on my...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW22

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

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