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Con Arte e Maestria: Virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque

Oliver Webber deserves a knighthood for services to period violin performance. He is a fount of historical knowledge and an...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2021

British Oboe Quintets (Nicholas Daniel. Doric String Quartet)

The chamber combination of oboe and string quartet would seem to lend itself ideally to the pastoral image of British...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2021

ROTA Chamber Music

In addition to his many film scores, Nino Rota also composed numerous concert and stage works as well as working...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021

MYASKOVSKY Cello Sonatas RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Serenade

That Myaskovsky mavens have been denied an incontrovertibly top-notch coupling of these pieces arguably no longer matters. We have many...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2021

LECLAIR; SENAILLE Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord

Although only one of the four sonatas for violin and continuo by Jean-Baptiste Senaillé offered here is claimed as a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2021

LANGGAARD Music of the Abyss

Even in his twenties – his acclaimed Symphony No 1 already introduced to the world by the Berlin Philharmonic –...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2021

The Viennese Viola

Back in August 2019, when nobody thought twice about filling an intimate performance space to capacity, I attended a very...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2021

BRUCH String Quintets. Octet

Who would have thought, back in the 1990s, that we would one day have competing recordings of Bruch’s string quintets...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2021

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas. Liebeslieder (Emmanuelle Bertrand)

This disc’s title led me to expect cello and-piano arrangements of the Liebeslieder Waltzes, and my heart leapt at the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas, Vol 2 (Michael Foyle)

The Scottish-Estonian duo of Michael Foyle and Maksim Štšura swiftly follow up their first volume of Beethoven’s violin sonatas (4/21)...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2021

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