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Simon Höfele: New Standards

Despite a bewilderingly facile interview between the trumpeter and pianist which is, in effect, the complete booklet (one page is...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2021

Tine Thing Helseth: Magical Memories For Trumpet and Organ

There are some artists who have the unteachable gift of turning the simplest, most ordinary and even third-rate music into...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021

Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain

The year 2021 is a fine one for British musical centenarians, whether the composers Robert Simpson and Malcolm Arnold or...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2021

Toby Hughes: Elegy

Despite its title, Toby Hughes’s debut album is not so much a disc of elegies as an examination of the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2021

WOLF-FERRARI Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3 (Emmanuele Baldini)

Although hardly remembered for chamber music, Wolf-Ferrari essayed more than a dozen works in the genre at either end of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2021

STANFORD Piano Quintet

It is good to see that Stanford’s Piano Quintet, a work that stands up more than respectably against other Romantic...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2021

R PANUFNIK Heartfelt & other works

This album featuring Roxanna Panufnik’s chamber works will come as a surprise to listeners more familiar with the theme of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2021

MOZART Violin Sonatas (transcribed for oboe. Olivier Stankiewicz)

Oboists have much for which to be thankful to Mozart. Not only are there a charming concerto and a true...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2021

HINDEMITH Complete Sonatas For Wind Instruments and Piano

Hard on the heels of Les Vents Français’ sparkling selection of five wind sonatas by Hindemith (those for flute, oboe,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2021

COPLAND. PROKOFIEV. POULENC "1942" Violin Sonatas (Benjamin Baker)

Taken on its own terms, this is an extremely good programme: three significant sonatas, all of them born in 1942...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2021

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