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ELGAR; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Sonatas (Jennifer Pike)

Reviewing some 30 recordings of Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor for a Gramophone Collection in January 2016, it was...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2020

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas (François Salque, Eric Le Sage)

It’s one thing for a group of musicians to produce a complete chamber works cycle whose separate multifarious-force constituents are...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio Op 70 No 2. Symphony No 2 (Beethoven Trio Bonn)

The second of Beethoven’s Op 70 pair is rather the poor relation among the numbered piano trios, its radiance effaced...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2020

ARTYOMOV Album XI

Vyacheslav Artyomov turned 80 this year. His reputation may rest significantly on large-scale orchestral works, such as the Requiem and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

Camille Thomas: Voice of Hope

Fazıl Say describes his 2017 Cello Concerto as an artistic response to the terror attacks in Paris and Istanbul, and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

Music of the Spheres

Marketing in overdrive and a concept that has misfired, but don’t let that stop you listening to these fresh and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

Sarah Willis: Mozart y Mambo

Sarah Willis is hardly the first to put a Cuban spin on classical works. But where, say, the Klazz Brothers’...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights

The idea for this recording came out of a casual conversation between fellow Georgians Lisa Batiashvili and Nikoloz Rachveli about...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

L’Heure Bleue; Hildegard, Hersant, Hartmann, Shostakovich

If I’ve unpacked it right, there are two converging strands to this project: the atmosphere of ‘that fleeting moment between...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

VIEUXTEMPS Works for Violin & Orchestra (Reto Kuppel)

Given that there’s generally a reason why flashy early 19th-century miniatures penned by their era’s virtuoso soloists haven’t made it...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020

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