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STRAUSS Chamber works (Oculi Ensemble)

This debut recording from the Oculi Ensemble features the two extremities of Richard Strauss’s creative life, from his days as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2021

MOZART String Quartets Vol 3 (Armida Quartet)

The Armida Quartet’s Mozart cycle operates both as an artistic endeavour and as a musicological one. The players are acting...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2021

LEFANU; MACONCHY; SWAYNE 'Relationships'

The title of this Resonus release is a fair summation of those relationships not only between the composers and artists...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2021

Belle Époque 1886

If you gleaned your musical education from Penguin paperbacks, you probably can’t – even now – hear Franck’s Violin Sonata...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2021

DVORAK; DYAKOV; FALL Piano Trios (Trio Imàge)

You’ve probably come across Leo Fall of operetta fame, maybe even his younger brother Richard, who did some scoring in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2021

The Taste of this Nation

UK-based baroque ensemble Spiritato say one of their main aims is ‘to promote forgotten composers and bring their music to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2021

BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Piano and Violin Vol 1 (Michael Foyle)

Recording Beethoven’s complete violin sonatas in Mechelen, the home of Beethoven’s forebears, during a period of near-global isolation revealed to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2021

Beethoven Recomposed

Don’t let this album’s title put you off; nothing is ‘recomposed’ here. Rather, these are quite faithful arrangements for string...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021

Occurrence - ISO Project Vol 3

‘Recurrence’, ‘Concurrence’ (3/20) and now ‘Occurrence’. The Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s three-disc survey of new orchestral music from its homeland has...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2021

YIU The World Was Once All Miracle

Now in his late forties, Raymond Yiu has gradually become known as a composer during the past decade. Born in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2021

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