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PADEREWSKI; STOJOWSKI Violin Sonatas (Piotr Plawner)

This appealing trans-centennial musical diversion offers a good excuse to showcase three quality Polish sonatas that fall beyond the familiar...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021

PIAZZOLLA 'Cien Anõs'

This programme may have been designed as a centenary tribute to Astor Piazzolla but it’s Juanjo Mosalini who steals the...

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

MENDELSSOHN; FANNY MENDELSSOHN String Quartets (Takács Quartet)

Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartets in A and F minor, the one an astonishing response to the challenge of late Beethoven, the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2021

KLEBANOV Chamber Works

The Toronto-based ARC Ensemble continue their rehabilitation of 20th-century Jewish composers from across the ideological divide with three chamber works...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2021

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

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