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SAY Complete Violin Works

Maverick, mercurial, outspoken, charismatic, Fazıl Say (b1970) is the composer-laureate of Turkey, as works such as the oratorio Nâzım (2001),...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2020

KUNC; LHOTKA; SLAVENSKI String Quartets

With a meagre legacy of classical music to call their own, Croatian composers in the first half of the last...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020

KAUFMANN Chamber works (ARC Ensemble)

Assistant to Bruno Walter, friend of Albert Einstein, author of an ethnomusicological dictionary in common use today: Walter Kaufmann has...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020

DUNHILL; ERLANGER Piano Quintets

The musical style of the naturalised Englishman and banker Baron Frédéric Alfred d’Erlanger, born in Paris of a French father...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2020

DEVIENNE Trios (Le Petit Trianon)

I have heard Olivier Riehl’s flute-playing live in concert. It was a humid evening in Paris; despite the audience’s sweaty...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2020

DUTILLEUX; RAVEL String Quartets (The Ruysdael Quartet)

I’d heard of the Ruysdael Quartet but hadn’t heard them play until this disc came my way, and now I...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2020

BEETHOVEN Ghost Trio. Triple Concerto. Gassenhauer Trio. Symphony No 6(Beethoven Trio Bonn)

Following their lovely disc of the Op 70 No 2 Trio and their namesake composer’s own arrangement of the Second...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2020

CPE BACH Complete Piano Trios (Linos Piano Trio)

The piano trios of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach were originally published (beginning with Wq89 in 1776) with a cumbersome but...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2020

Liza Stepanova: E pluribus unum

Immigration is the backdrop to this programme of American piano music, from the ethnic origins of the composers featured and,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2020

Bonita Boyd: Aquarelles

Original repertoire for flute, cello and piano is not as extensive as it might be. Arrangements abound, as here with...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2020

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