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ABEL; JS BACH 'Solo Bach-Abel' (Lucile Boulanger)

Bags of invention have gone into this album. Inspired by the ‘arrangement idiom’ of the Baroque, Lucile Boulanger has created...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022

Beethoven, Mozart, Seabourne & Holloway: Horn Quintets

There cannot be much repertoire for his instrument that Ondřej Vrabec has not yet tackled, which makes his collection of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2022

Horn and Piano: A Cor Basse Recital

'Punto blows magnifique’, enthused Mozart to his father from Mannheim in 1778. At the end of the century the Bohemian...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2022

PIAZZOLLA Escualo5

Astor Piazzolla’s centenary in 2021 was marked by a slew of recordings, including superb releases from Karen Gomyo (BIS, A/21),...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022

MOZART String Quartets, Vol 4 (Armida Quartet)

Gramophone caught up with the Armida Quartet’s Mozart cycle almost a year ago, with a two-disc set (Vol 3, 4/21)...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022

MOERAN Chamber Music (Fidelio Trio)

Writing in the booklet, the Fidelio Trio’s violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea eloquently describe their strong ties to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2022

LECLAIR Violin Sonatas, Book 3 - Op. 5, Nos. 1-4

Famed for his Italianate high virtuosity but equally for employing it only with the utmost taste and grace, and for...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022

KAPUSTIN 'Blueprint - Piano Music For Jazz Trio'

In welcoming the unrestrained brilliance of Frank Dupree in Kapustin’s Fourth Piano Concerto (A/21), I compared the experience to listening...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

JENKINS Four-Part Consorts (Phantasm)

Fun fact: the viol consort music of the 16th and 17th centuries was so polyphonically complex and so democratic in...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022

IDDON Sapindales

The music on Martin Iddon’s second portrait disc on Another Timbre casts a flitting shadow at once medieval and contemporary....

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2022

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