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MeMento Mori (Klingzeug Barockensemble)

Rare has become the ensemble that releases its first album a decade after formation. But much is gained by Klingzeug’s...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2021

Face(s) à Face(s)

The Romain Leleu Sextet is a class act. Let’s start with the elegant virtuosity of the French trumpeter himself, for...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021

SEARLE 'Pilgrim of Curiosity'

The Scottish composer Oliver Iredale Searle (b1977) has a clearly defined line in evocative, often exotic titles, which give his...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2021

SCHUBERT Octet in F Major (Wigmore Soloists)

Schubert may have taken Beethoven’s Septet as the model for his Octet but he filled the template with his own...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

PLEYEL Prussian Quartets Nos 10-12 (Pleyel Quartet Köln)

Ignace Joseph Pleyel’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets were composed during the mid-1780s and published in four sets of three in 1787 with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

KORNGOLD Chamber Music

While Korngold’s 21st-century rehabilitation as a serious composer seems well and truly complete, it’s fair to say that his chamber...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2021

GIPPS 'Dedication' Clarinet chamber music

The oboe was Ruth Gipps’s main instrument (she studied with Leon Goossens and was at one time principal oboist in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021

FAGERLUND Oceano

BIS continues to explore the Finnish composer Sebastian Fagerlund (b1972) with this overview of chamber music from the past 15...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2021

DRAESEKE String Quartets Vol 2 (Constanze Quartet)

Who is Felix Draeseke, you may ask. It would seem upon closer inspection that Draeseke (1835-1913) is perhaps the most...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2021

BEETHOVEN String Quartets, Op 18 Nos 1-3 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)

Soloist-led string quartets on disc stretch from the Rose, Busch and Paganini Quartets (the latter led by the brilliant Polish...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2021

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