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BRITTEN; ENESCU; RAVEL Piano Trios (Amatis Trio)

Their first commercial release finds the Amatis Trio tackling this not inconsiderable programme for the medium by two gifted adolescents...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2020

BRETÓN String Quartets Nos 1 & 3

Tomás Bretón trained as a violinist at the Conservatoire in Madrid during the 1860s and spent a brief but formative...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 4, 5 & 8 (James Ehnes)

I’ve said before that I don’t think James Ehnes is capable of making an unmusical sound, and the previous instalments...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Fortepiano and Violoncello (Nicolas Altstaedt)

For this new recording of Beethoven’s music for cello and keyboard, Nicolas Altstaedt plays on a gut-strung Guadagnini cello from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020

BEACH; ELGAR Piano Quintets

I have often wondered why the music of Amy Beach is not more loudly acclaimed. As part of a late...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2020

Aspects of America: The Pulitzer Edition

The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917 to recognise excellence in journalism, arts and letters. It wasn’t until 1944...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2020

WEINBERG Clarinet Music (Robert Oberaigner)

Weinberg’s works for wind instruments have been less well served on disc than those for strings. His three works for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020

VIVALDI Concerti per violino VIII ‘Il teatro' (Julien Chauvin)

Make sure you aren’t holding a cup of tea when you put this disc on. The opening chord is the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2020

VIVALDI Concerti per flauto (Giovanni Antonini)

It may seem strange that Il Giardino Armonico, founded as long ago as 1985 as one of the very first...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2020

VASKS Viola Concerto (Maxim Rysanov)

Most works by Vasks present, in one form or another, a journey towards the light – that of political emancipation...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2020

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