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DICKINSON Translations – Early Chamber Works

The Peter Dickinson discography has increased substantially in the wake of his 80th birthday, and those having acquired the various...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW18

CHOPIN; GRIEG; SCHUMANN Cello Sonatas (Segev & Pohjonen)

Chamber music acoustics can be a very personal thing. There’s a tendency today towards either crystal clarity or something a...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW18

MOZART; BEETHOVEN Quintets for Piano and Winds

Mozart once pronounced the Quintet for piano and wind instruments his favourite among all his works. It’s easy to see...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW18

BEETHOVEN Trios for Clarinet, Cello and Piano

Beethoven’s Septet of 1799-1800 was one of his early successes, leading to a number of arrangements for more manageable forces....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW18

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios (Trio Goya)

Beethoven took tremendous care with his Op 1, striving to present himself to a wider public in the best possible...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW18

ANTHEIL Violin Concerto. Sonatina

Antheil composed his Sonatina and Violin Concerto for Werner Gebauer, a German-born violinist who emigrated to the US in 1938....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW18

AHO Wind Quintets (Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet)

Kalevi Aho likes nothing more than a compositional problem to solve, as witness his 28 concertos, many for unlikely instruments....

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18

Transcendent

The compelling repertoire that the Asia/America New Music Institute presents on its new disc, ‘Transcendent’, speaks volumes for the high...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW18

Matei Varga: Early Departures

‘Early Departures’ refers to sadness, pain and loss, topics that Matei Varga purports to address in his solo debut recital....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW18

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition PROKOFIEV Cinderella

Sergei Gorchakov’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures was completed in 1955. This is the fifth recording of it I know of,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW18

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