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Eastern Reflections: Bartók, Lutosławski, Weinberg, Ligeti (Jonathan Leibovitz)

The works presented on this album were composed in Eastern (many there would now prefer the term Central) Europe between...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: AW2024

SCHUBERT; SHOSTAKOVICH Viola Sonatas (Andreas Willwohl)

It seems that Schubert has become a go-to composer when it comes to contrasting classical-romantic sublimity with more challenging, if...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

HOLMBOE String Quartets Vol 3

Having covered already Holmboe’s first and last published thoughts on the string quartet genre (omitting the 10 or so fragmentary...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2024

HINDEMITH Viola Sonatas (Maria Shetty)

As is made clear with her extensive annotations, Maria Shetty did not undertake performance of Hindemith’s sonatas for viola lightly,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

ELIAS Music for Strings

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the finest album of contemporary...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2024

CASTALDI; PELLEGRINI Capricci

Active for some time in the continuo and small ensemble fields, French lutenist and baroque guitarist Albane Imbs can’t seem...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW2024

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Ostrovsky; Suwanai)

Here are two quite distinct interpretative visions of Brahms’s violin sonatas. Ostrovsky and Morozova are a thoughtful duo who like...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

BRAHMS Piano Quartets Nos 2 & 3

To learn that a particular recording is the last that an artist had made is to encourage speculation about possible...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Cello and Piano, Vol 1 (Gabriel Schwabe)

An effective litmus test when reviewing a recent recording of familiar repertoire is whether or not your ear automatically sidesteps...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

Paris est une fête

This disc of French music would make a lovely, balanced concert programme: two concertante works for violin, an orchestral lollipop...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2024

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