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Rachel Podger: The Muses Restor’d

Handel, Lawes, Blow, Locke, Purcell, Schop, Jenkins, Baltzar and Jones; sonatas, suites, concerts, grounds and popular tunes … this exploration...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024

Love Music

‘O sink upon us, night of love …’ Well, ‘Love Music’ is the title of this album from pianist Yeol...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024

The Golden Age of Hollywood: Concert Works for Violin and Piano

‘The Golden Age of Hollywood’: it’s an attractive idea for a recital, made even more interesting by the fact that...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024

WATKINS Chamber Music and Works for String Orchestra

Just short of his half-century, Huw Watkins has long been active as both composer and pianist, and on disc an...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 9 & 15 (Carducci Quartet)

The third volume of the Carducci Quartet’s Shostakovich cycle pairs two of the mightiest of the 15. Both the five-movement...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2024

SCHUMANN; TANEYEV Piano Quintets

I became obsessed with Sergey Taneyev’s Piano Quintet (1915) after hearing Pletnev, Repin, Gringolts, Imai and Harrell’s incendiary account (DG,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024

MANZIARLY Chamber Works

Born in Kharkiv, trained in France and Switzerland, spiritually inspired in India and harboured by the United States, Marcelle de...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024

FINNISSY 'Alternative Readings'

This remarkable sequence of compositions by Michael Finnissy (b1943) has several special qualities. The framing performances of different versions of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024

'Fauré authentique'

Just as the musical world has moved on from the polarity of authentic versus modern performance, here comes the A-word...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2024

BRAHMS Piano Trios (Trio Sõra)

I thoroughly enjoyed Trio Sōra’s nimble, clear-textured traversal of Beethoven’s six piano trios (Naïve, 12/20), although I found a few...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024

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