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Songs of Comfort and Hope (Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott)

When Covid-19 hit the US hard in the first months of 2020 and lockdowns began to be imposed in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021

Matt Haimovitz: Mon ami, mon amour

There’s an autumnal air to the music on this album, and not just because much of it was written in...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2021

The Berlin Album: Trio Sonatas From Berlin (Ensemble Diderot)

With London, Paris and Dresden already dispatched with style, Berlin is the next stop for Johannes Pramsohler’s plaudit-garnering Cities series....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2021

Avi Avital: Art of the Mandolin

Avi Avital, incomparable artist of and advocate for the mandolin, here presents a multifaceted portrait of an instrument ‘at once...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2021

THELEN World Dialogue (Kronos Quartet)

The Swiss composer Stephan Thelen wrote the string quartet Circular Lines for the Kronos Quartet’s project ‘50 for the Future:...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 01/2021

SCHUBERT 'Ins stille Land' (Signum Quartett)

A couple of years ago the Gramophone Awards adopted a category for ‘Concept Album’ – ‘one designed to be heard...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2021

MOZART Serenade No 10 'Gran Partita' (Members of the Concertgebouworkest)

How Mozart must have relished writing the so-called Gran Partita. Its opulent forces gave scope both to his love of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2021

FAURÉ Piano Quartets (Fauré Quartet)

To mark the 25th anniversary of their formation, the German Fauré Quartet turn to Fauré’s own music for their new...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2021

Moreau: A Family Affair

Nottingham is not the only city with a flourishing musical family, as this release by the Paris-born Moreau siblings makes...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2021

CHOPIN Piano Concertos (chamber versions)

No matter how well you know these two life-enhancing works, I strongly suggest you hear them in their alternative garb....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2021

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