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This recording of Walton’s Piano Quartet, composed during 1918 19, is a most welcome addition to the catalogue in that...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 03/2021
When he was 15, Daniel Hope heard a fellow student play Schnittke’s First Violin Sonata, sparking what’s become a lifelong...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021
Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770-1846) was a celebrated organist in his day and is best known for the music he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2021
Helena Munktell (1852-1919) studied singing and piano in Stockholm, Vienna and Paris, was elected to the Swedish Royal Academy in...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2021
Holmboe’s First and Third Quartets (both completed in 1949) first appeared on LP in the 1950s, recorded respectively by the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2021
Joly Braga Santos (1924-88) was a figure of exceptional importance in Portuguese music, as anyone who has heard the first...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2021
This recording has two claims on your attention. It’s the latest release in Harmonia Mundi’s ‘Stradivari’ project showcasing historic instruments...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2021
The album’s opener, Bach’s Sonata in G, BWV1027, is lovely. Marie Stockmarr Becker and Ilaria Macedonio perform the Adagio with...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2021
While the Berlin Philharmonic’s Bruckner tradition began to be documented in the 78 era, with Jascha Horenstein conducting the Seventh...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021
Born to British parents in the USA in 1927, Thomas Wilson moved to the United Kingdom as an infant and...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2021
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
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