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DUNHILL; ERLANGER Piano Quintets

The musical style of the naturalised Englishman and banker Baron Frédéric Alfred d’Erlanger, born in Paris of a French father...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2020

DEVIENNE Trios (Le Petit Trianon)

I have heard Olivier Riehl’s flute-playing live in concert. It was a humid evening in Paris; despite the audience’s sweaty...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2020

DUTILLEUX; RAVEL String Quartets (The Ruysdael Quartet)

I’d heard of the Ruysdael Quartet but hadn’t heard them play until this disc came my way, and now I...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2020

BEETHOVEN Ghost Trio. Triple Concerto. Gassenhauer Trio. Symphony No 6(Beethoven Trio Bonn)

Following their lovely disc of the Op 70 No 2 Trio and their namesake composer’s own arrangement of the Second...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2020

CPE BACH Complete Piano Trios (Linos Piano Trio)

The piano trios of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach were originally published (beginning with Wq89 in 1776) with a cumbersome but...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2020

Liza Stepanova: E pluribus unum

Immigration is the backdrop to this programme of American piano music, from the ethnic origins of the composers featured and,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2020

Bonita Boyd: Aquarelles

Original repertoire for flute, cello and piano is not as extensive as it might be. Arrangements abound, as here with...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2020

PICKER Opera Without Words. The Encantadas

Tobias Picker’s Opera Without Words is a brilliantly colourful concerto for orchestra in which the purely instrumental voices are taken...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2020

BRAHMS Complete works for violin and piano (Christoph Schickedanz)

There is no shortage of recordings of Brahms’s complete sonatas for violin and piano by artists legendary and otherwise. And...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2020

Aaron Tindall: Yellowbird

The tuba is often typecast as a supporting player at the bottom of the orchestra or as oom-pah champion in...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2020

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