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Death and the Maiden (12 Ensemble)

Mahler’s string-orchestra version of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet has received quite a lot of attention on records, especially...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2020

STANFORD String Quartets Nos 1, 2 & 6 (Dante Quartet)

Hats off, folks: the completion of the first full recorded cycle of Stanford’s string quartets deserves a moment of acknowledgement....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Voyager Quartet)

Schubert’s music never lies far from the arranger’s pen – whether it be the composer himself, apotheosing songs for his...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2020

Russian Visions

The ‘meaning’ of a Schnittke score has always been more than usually dependent on the context in which it is...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2020

MOZART Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin, Vol 2 (Faust & Melnikov)

Long relatively neglected on disc, Mozart’s ‘sonatas for harpsichord or fortepiano, with the accompaniment of a violin’, as they were...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020

LITOLFF Piano Trios (Leonore Piano Trios)

Henry Litolff was, in spite of his European-sounding surname, born in Marylebone. He is remembered for that Scherzo, yet how...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2020

HAGEN Harmonium Repertoire

Svetlana Boym described nostalgia as ‘a romance with one’s own fantasy’ – pertinent words in the case of Norway, a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2020

DVORÁK String Quartets Nos 8 & 10 (Albion Quartet)

What a gorgeous disc! True, it’d be a poor sort of string quartet who couldn’t make your heart melt with...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020

BRAGA SANTOS Complete Chamber Music, Vol 1

Joly Braga Santos (1924 88) was one of the most important Portuguese composers of the 20th century and it is...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2020

BEETHOVEN Late String Quartets (Brodsky Quartet)

At every turn of these engrossing and deeply considered readings, I like how the Brodskys ask questions of the music,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020

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