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CPE BACH Sonatas & Rondos (Marc-André Hamelin)

Certain performers seem to find a Being John Malkovich-like secret portal to the brain of every composer they play. Marc-André...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2022

Specchio Veneziano

As a ‘Venetian mirror’, I suppose it is inevitable that we hear doubles on this album. Le Consort present the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022

From Brighton To Brooklyn (Elena Urioste, Tom Poster)

Violinist Elena Urioste is from the US, her pianist husband Tom Poster from the UK, and this recital teases out...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022

WEINBERG 'Light in Darkness'

Having earlier recorded the violin sonatas (Challenge Classics, 9/13), Violin Concerto (7/14), violin Concertino (9/15) and solo violin sonatas (9/16),...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022

SCHUBERT Late String Quartets (Fitzwilliam Quartet)

Following on from the Fitzwilliam’s recording of Schubert’s Rosamunde and Death and the Maiden Quartets on Divine Art comes this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022

MOZART 'Piano and Winds' (Ma'alot Quintet)

Mozart’s piano concertos were habitually played in quartet or quintet reductions during the 18th century. The composer explicitly authorised such...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2022

Ukrainian Piano Quintets

Finally I’ve found my CD equivalent to Proust’s memory-laden madeleine. Not only are the performers former classmates and colleagues of...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2022

LOCKE The Flat Consort

A difficult, cantankerous personality who bore grudges and spoke his mind without much regard for the consequences. And one possessed...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2022

HIGGINS 'Ekstasis'

Although he has received several major commissions, not least from the Royal Opera House and the BBC Proms, this is...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022

FUCHS; KORNAUTH Works for viola and piano (Litton Dup)

Lockdown clearly had some consolations. Andrew Litton describes how, with their international careers temporarily on hold, he and his wife...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022

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