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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (Biss. Hewitt)

Jonathan Biss and Angela Hewitt are both nearing the end of their Beethoven sonata cycles, which have evolved very gradually...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier Book 1 (Devine)

Steven Devine’s traversal of The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, with Book 2 to follow, is both thoughtful and thought-provoking....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2019

JS BACH Six Cello Suites (arr violin. Podger)

Because she can; and why not? Rachel Podger has earned the right to deal briskly with the rights and wrongs...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2019

Perpetulum

Philip Glass gets top billing here, unsurprisingly I suppose, for – astonishingly – his first work for percussion ensemble, the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2019

The New York Concert

Combining Evgeny Kissin and the Emerson Quartet was always going to be a juxtaposition of strong musical minds, as this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

Music for a King: Chamber works from the court of Frederick the Great

This latest from Florilegium is such a musicological feast that it had three-quarters won me over before I even pressed...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2019

Les Vents Français: Moderniste

Les Vents Français have continued to set the pace in terms of wind-ensemble repertoire since their Gramophone Award-winning ‘Winds &...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2019

SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14. String Quintet

The particular twist in the Quartetto di Cremona’s coupling of Schubert’s two most popular late string masterpieces is their use...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2019

SCHUBERT Octet BERWALD Crand Septet

Anima Eterna perform Schubert’s ever-lovable Octet on instruments largely from the early 19th century. And these instruments are wild. Lisa...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2019

HOWELLS Chamber Music

Here’s a disc to sweep away preconceptions and to help you hear with fresh ears. Howells described the finale of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2019

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