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ALKAN Grande Sonate (Mark Viner)

Did you know that for the entire era of 78rpm shellac discs (that’s to say from the late 1890s to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2020

Three American Violin Sonatas (Cho-Liang Lin)

On the evidence of this disc, the violin sonata is alive and kicking in 21st-century America. The form has a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020

La bellezza: The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music

'The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music’ is Lina Tur Bonet’s subtitle for this new release with her ensemble Musica...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020

Barricades (Thomas Dunford, Jean Rondeau)

If you’re the sort who likes to know exactly what’s going on, you may well find this album frustrating. What...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020

SCHUBERT String Quintet & String Trio (Aviv Quartet)

Why did the string trio of violin, viola and cello never really catch on as a genre? Mozart, having written...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2020

SCHUBERT Trout Quintet (Thymos Quartet)

Christoph Eschenbach and the Thymos Quartet had me smiling from the very first bars of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. How affectionately...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2020

Hee-Young Lim: Russian Cello Sonatas

Old-school musicologists may scoff but these exceptionally melodic sonatas are now among the most frequently played of their kind. Not...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020

PINNOCK Lines and Spaces

The arresting output of Naomi Pinnock (b1979) has not received much exposure in the UK (the Huddersfield Festival excepted), so...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020

PIATTI Operatic Fantasies, Vol 2

How many student cellists have fallen in love, despite themselves, with the studies of Alfredo Piatti? It’s not that they’re...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020

LIM Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus

Based at the University of Huddersfield, the Australian composer Liza Lim is one of a growing number of contemporary composers...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2020

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