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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

Flor da noite

Radamés Gnattali (1906 88) was an important figure in Brazilian music. He never realised his dream of being a concert...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

ELGAR String Quartet. Piano Quintet

Performances of conspicuous insight, pedigree and power. In the mighty Piano Quintet the Brodskys generate a consistently stimulating rapport with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2019

DVORÁK String Quartets 5 & 12 SUK Meditation

The Albion Quartet, formed as recently as 2016, are a group of young Brits led by Tamsin Waley-Cohen. In a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2019

COUPERIN Concerts Royaux. Les Nations

Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of François Couperin ‘le Grand’ (1668-1733) with...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2019

MOZART; MAHLER; BRAHMS Piano Quartets (Skride Piano Quartet)

‘You English make Brahms so cold! In reality he was such a human person’, said his former pupil Ilona Eibenschütz....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2019

BORODIN; SHOSTAKOVICH; WEINBERG String Quartets

The young Chinese musicians of the Dragon Quartet here follow up their first disc for Channel Classics (of Schubert and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2019

JS BACH Violin Sonatas (Capuçon, Fray)

A decade on from Swing, Sing & Think – Bruno Monsaingeon’s film that follows David Fray recording Bach’s keyboard concertos,...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2019

ZEMLINSKY; RACHMANINOV; ARENSKY Piano Trios

The Smetana Trio is one of those groups in the grand Czech tradition; this latest line-up features three formidably fine...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

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