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DVORÁK String Quintet Op 97 KURTÁG Moments Musicaux. Officium breve

If you wanted to make the point that 21st-century string quartet-playing is defined by a virtuosity so agile that it’s...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2021

CHOPIN Cello Sonata. Grand Duo Concertant (Anne Gastinel)

In the booklet interview Anne Gastinel talks of her longstanding love for Chopin, having played the piano for over a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2021

BUXTEHUDE Trio Sonatas Op 2 (Arcangelo)

For Arcangelo to follow Handel’s Brockes Passion so soon with trio sonatas by Buxtehude is an eloquent demonstration of their...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2021

BEETHOVEN The Violin Sonatas Vol 3 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

The first edition of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata described it as ‘scritta in un stilo molto concertante’, and the problem for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2021

BARBER; RACHMANINOV 'Muse' (Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason)

A music sequence that is especially close to the hearts of these prodigiously gifted siblings, the Barber Sonata penned by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021

JS BACH 'Three or One'

Fred Thomas’s transcriptions for piano trio of Bach organ and vocal works aim to replicate the ways various stops on...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021

TANGUY Clarinet Concerto. Violin Concerto No 2

Currently, the Presto Classical database lists some dozen albums of the music of Éric Tanguy (b1968), but only one other...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021

SCHUMANN Complete works for cello (Ella van Poucke)

Born in Amsterdam in 1994, educated at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the recipient of a clutch of musical prizes,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2021

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 3. Urbs Roma (Kantorow)

By all rights, Urbs Roma should be Saint Saëns’s Second Symphony – or even, if one counts the delightfully precocious...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021

SAINT-GEORGES Symphonies Concertante (Halász)

The life-story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges reads like an Alexandre Dumas tale. Born on Christmas Day 1745 to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021

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