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Luis Cabrera: Canto interno

What an eloquent player Luis Cabrera is. In his extensive booklet note, the Spanish-born bassist explains that the album’s title,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2021

RAVEL; SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios (Sitkovetsky Trio)

Much admired in these pages for their interpretations of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the Sitkovetskys make their first foray into French...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2021

PENDERECKI Complete Music for String Quartet & String Trio

While Penderecki’s intimate relationship with string instruments is well known, his output for string quartet per se is curious, not...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2021

MOZART Sonatas for Violin & Piano, K 301, 304, 305 & 454 (Peter Hanson)

Peter Hanson has enjoyed a long career in period ensembles, primarily as leader of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique since...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2021

MOZART Prussian Quartets (Doric String Quartet)

Mozart complained that these three quartets – which may or may not have been commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm II...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2021

MENDELSSOHN String Quintets (Bartholdy Quintett)

This album offers a stirring and refreshing journey through the lights and shades of Mendelssohn’s lyrical and ethereal quintets. The...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 09/2021

DVORÁK Piano Trio Op 90 'Dumky' KODÁLY Duo for Violin and Violoncello

The only other violinist who in my experience ignites imagined rustic campfires as vividly as does Barnabás Kelemen is Grigoraș...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No 13. Grosse Fuge, Op 133 (Ehnes Quartet)

It’s many a year since I’ve heard string quartet-playing that’s more sheerly beautiful than this, whether in the sum of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021

JS BACH The Art of Fugue (Les Inattendus, Vincent Lhermet, Marianne Muller)

There’s a strange blend, sometimes remarkably so, to this performance by Les inAttendus. Will it replace the string quartet? No,...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2021

History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vols 4 & 5 (Brahms Trio)

With these two discs The Brahms Trio conclude a journey of discovery that I have found both edifying and exhilarating....

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 09/2021

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