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BIRTWISTLE Chamber Works (Nash Ensemble)

For Harrison Birtwistle to change the title of Pulse Sampler to ‘Danse sacrale’ would suggest an inappropriately literal homage to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2022

BEETHOVEN Rondino. Wind Octet MOZART Serenade (MIB Ensemble)

Don’t be fooled by the opus number. Beethoven’s Octet for pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns is one of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022

BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS; GAL 'Auftakt' (Trio Vision)

As Hans Gál told it, a busker named Ungrad frequented the wine gardens of fin de siècle Vienna, and for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2022

'Beethoven for Three' Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

Ferdinand Ries’s arrangement for piano trio of Beethoven’s Second Symphony was published in 1805, a year after the publication of...

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

Edgar Moreau: Transmission

The cello as cantor. And for Edgar Moreau the incantations plainly run deep. The ‘Transmission’ of the title goes from...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2022

British Music for Strings, Vol 3 (Bostock)

This latest volume of British string music from Douglas Bostock and his 14 players in the South West German Chamber...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2022

TROTIGNON 'Anima'

For those unfamiliar with his name, Baptiste Trotignon emerged during the first decade of this century as one of the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022

RAVEL Orchestral Works (Wilson)

John Wilson is on a mission to bring his restorative ear to bear on Ravel’s orchestral catalogue, so expect more...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2022

MOZART; STRAUSS Oboe Concertos (Cristina Gómez Godoy)

The Spanish oboist Cristina Gómez Godoy (b1990) was a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for many years, as well...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022

MOZART Symphonies Nos 38 & 39 (Manze)

Andrew Manze follows up his live Hanover recordings of Symphonies Nos 40 and 41 (4/19) with their two numerical predecessors,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022

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