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STRAVINSKY Histoire du soldat (Gayot)

Hard on the heels of LSO Live’s austere English-language Soldier’s Tale comes this version in the original French from Harmonia...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

SCHUBERT String Quartets, D810 and D173

‘Immer zu! Ohne Rast und Ruh’ – ‘Ever onwards, without respite’: these words from Schubert’s turbulent Goethe setting ‘Rastlose Liebe’...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2018

REICH Drumming (Kuniko)

‘A Drumming for this decade – and probably a few to come’ was my reaction to the Colin Currie Group’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018

MOZART; WEBER Clarinet Quintets (Bliss & Carducci Quartet)

A pair of quintets composed for inspirational players, both of whom were pioneers of the nascent clarinet and its technique....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2018

MOZART Sonatas for Fortepiano & Violin, Vol 1 (Faust & Melnikov)

The past couple of years have seen the appearance of Alina Ibragimova’s cycle of all Mozart’s music for violin and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2018

LOCKE For Lovers of Consort Music

This recording should come with a warning not to read the booklet notes until after listening to the CD. Look...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2018

Tesla Quartet: Haydn; Ravel; Stravinsky

‘Though free to think and act, we are held together like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable’, we...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

GUILLEMAIN Flute Quartets

‘History is cruel, and the history of music is no exception’, begin the notes to this latest top-drawer offering from...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2018

GÓRECKI; PÄRT; RÄÄTS "Kaleidoscopic"

This year marks the centenary of Estonia’s independence; yet, while plenty of attention has already been bestowed on the nation’s...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2018

DEBUSSY Les Trois Sonates: The Late Works

Described as ‘testamentary’ on its back cover, the latest release in Harmonia Mundi’s Debussy anniversary series is perhaps more an...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

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