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HAYDN String Quartets, Op 76 Nos 1‑3 ( Chiaroscuro Quartet)

Charles Burney hit the nail on the head. The Op 76 quartets, he wrote, were proof of Haydn’s enduringly youthful...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 1, 5 & 8 (Tamsin Waley-Cohen)

These are closely miked studio accounts, with little sense of the 300-seat Snape Maltings acoustic in which they were recorded,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2020

AHO Chamber Music

Highly prolific composers from Mozart to Martinů have a capacity to pull flair and distinction out of the bag just...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020

LA Phil 100

The LA Phil had more than a major birthday to celebrate at this concert, which marked 100 years to the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020

Augustin Hadelich: Bohemian Tales

I was wowed by Augustin Hadelich’s richly characterised and subtly coloured account of the Brahms Concerto (Warner, 6/19), and his...

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

Sharon Isbin: Affinity

‘Affinity’ by name, affinity by nature, Sharon Isbin’s terrific latest recording evinces a wonderful talent for making fully hers what...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2020

Martin Fröst: Vivaldi

There’s Venetian intrigue here, a touch of smoke and mirrors. The booklet cover itself raises two questions. ‘Martin Fröst Vivaldi’...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade (Petrenko)

After his avian double bill of The Firebird and The Golden Cockerel with the RLPO (Onyx, 1/19), Vasily Petrenko has...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020

PROKOFIEV Suites from The Gambler and The Tale of the Stone Flower

Quietly and without fuss, Moscow-born Finnish-resident Dima Slobodeniouk has been rising through the ranks with posts in Galicia and Lahti...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020

MACMILLAN Symphony No 4. Viola Concerto (Lawrence Power)

Onyx’s 2016 release of James MacMillan’s Symphony No 4 featured this large-scale single-movement work alongside the composer’s Violin Concerto. Here...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020

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