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PIAZZOLLA Revolucionario; Neave Trio: Celebrating Piazzolla

Astor Piazzolla formed his first quintet in 1960, adding piano, guitar, violin and double bass to his bandoneón. It disbanded...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2019

PARRY Piano Trios Nos 1 & 3

Brahms, Schumann …it’s been too easy, over the long years of its relative neglect, to reach for obvious comparisons when...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019

PANUFNIK String Quartets

Overshadowed by his symphonies, Panufnik’s string quartets have begun to find favour – this disc by the Apollon Musagète Quartet...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2019

DE LA GUERRE Chamber Music from the Brossard Collection

Recordings of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s harpsichord music are not rare; recordings of her chamber music are. Yet in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2019

BARTÓK; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Waarts)

Stephen Waarts paired Schumann and Bartók for his debut recording because, he writes in a booklet note, ‘intense expressivity’ is...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2019

JS BACH Cello Suites Recomposed by Peter Gregson

DG’s ‘Recomposed’ series was launched 13 years ago with a disc featuring electropop-style arrangements of classic 19th-century orchestral recordings by...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2019

ARMSTRONG Dance Maze

Revision is the key element in this programme of music by Tom Armstrong (b1968). At its most straightforward, in the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2019

New Year’s Concert 2019

It was surely only a matter of time before Christian Thielemann was invited to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019

ZIMMERMANN Violin Concerto. Die Soldaten (Lintu)

The fragmentary nature of Zimmermann’s pre emptive vocal symphony on Die Soldaten reflects that of his entire artistic outlook –...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2019

H WOOD Snapshots of London. Egypta

Within the limitations of the light music genre, Haydn Wood must be viewed as a composer of efficiency and, at...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2019

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