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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Complete String Quartets (Verdi Quartet)

The sharp-eyed reader of Michael Kennedy’s standard work on the music of Vaughan Williams will remember that he composed three...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 10/2024

TORELLI 12 Concerti da Camera

That the Verona-born violinist and composer Giuseppe Torelli has long been recognised as an important figure in the development of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024

TANEYEV Violin Sonata. Piano Quintet

This is a superb performance of Taneyev’s massive and meaty Piano Quintet. Like Mikhail Pletnev and his starry quartet of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2024

MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

Until now, Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Jeremy Denk have joined up on only a single recording, which featured the...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2024

D MATTHEWS Complete String Quartets Vol 6

As I write this review David Matthews has probably already finished his String Quartet No 18! Only the Seventh (with...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 10/2024

MARAIS Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte Colombe

In her booklet note to La Rêveuse’s latest superb release, the ensemble’s co-founder, gamba player Florence Bolton, remarks how the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2024

CLYNE Shorthand

You’re never quite sure what to expect with Anna Clyne’s music, and that’s not meant as a criticism in any...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2024

'Elegy'

Francis Purcell Warren (‘Bunny’ to his friends) was a gifted viola player killed, when only 21, at the Battle of...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 10/2024

Vivaldi x2²

When it comes to explosively vibrant album-opening chords, it takes some doing to top the Red-Bull-meets-fireworks-show shot of musical adrenalin...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2024

SCHURMANN Orchestral Works (Gernon)

Gerard Schurmann throws down the gauntlet at the beginning of his Piano Concerto from 1972 73 with an opening cadenza...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2024

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