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BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

If you’ve yet to be persuaded of the merits of the Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand Piano, this bright-eyed...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2021

American Quintets (Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective)

If the aim of a debut is to captivate, showcase talent, lend insight into a curatorial perspective and leave the...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 07/2021

Homage to Bach (Brodsky Quartet)

We’re plunged into the cinematic smokiness of film noir for the opening of this album: Bach’s solo violin music, arranged...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2021

VASKS Musica dolorosa. Musica serena. Musica Appassionata. Klātbūtne

Spatially recorded Vasks from the Munich Radio Orchestra has a particular quality, a parallel immersive throbbing to that associated with...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2021

STRAUSS Burleske. Serenade. Tod und Verklarung (Franck)

Richard Strauss’s Burleske has been doing well on record of late. Denis Kozhukhin’s fine Pentatone recording from a couple of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2021

SKALKOTTAS Dance of Waves

Naxos follows its anthology ‘The Neoclassical Skalkottas’ (5/20) with one of widely divergent pieces from the mid-1930s. The 36 Greek...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos. Piano Trio No 2 (Simon Trpčeski)

Nearly a quarter of a century separates Dmitry Shostakovich’s two piano concertos. The First dates from 1933, three years prior...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2021

SCHREKER Der Geburtstag der Infantin ZEMLINSKY Die Seejungfrau

Schreker’s Der Geburtstag der Infantin, based on Oscar Wilde’s short story The Birthday of the Infanta, is most commonly heard...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2021

RAVEL Bolero. La Valse. Rapsodie espagnole. Alborada del gracioso. Pavane (Trevino)

Ravel may have lived most of his life in Paris but the Basque National Orchestra are bound to wear this...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2021

POTTER Symphony No 1 (Griffiths)

Cipriani Potter these days is just a name in dusty history books recounting Britain’s heyday as ‘Das Land ohne Musik’....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2021

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