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MACMILLAN String Quartets (Royal Quartet)

The cover of this disc of string quartets by James MacMillan is a simple illustration of a dense, web-like tangle...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2018

HOLLOWAY Trios (Rest Ensemble)

Robin Holloway once stated that as a young composer he wanted to be ‘a Modern among the Moderns’. Now in...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2018

FIRSOVA Fantasy

Alissa Firsova may be the mature side of 30 but this album radiates youth in all its wonder, complexity and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018

DVOŘÁK Piano Quintets. Bagatelles

A few months back I was enjoying the Busch Trio’s Dvořák piano quartets in the company of viola player Miguel...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2018

CERHA Sextet. Quintet. Trio (Swiss Chamber Concerts)

Friedrich Cerha celebrated his 92nd birthday earlier this year and two of these works are from his eighties. The largest...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2018

The Princess and the Bear

Dating from 1948, Strauss’s Duet-Concertino for clarinet, bassoon, strings and harp was his final instrumental work, though unlike many of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Vol 1 (Casals Quartet)

The Barcelona-based Cuarteto Casals have already made a very distinctive mark in quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. Now, having...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2018

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas (Ogata; Osostowicz)

Duncan Druce was troubled by ‘the lack of any really soft playing’ in the first volume of Susanna Ogata and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018

Christoph Denoth: Tanguero

The tango, which Piazzolla liberated from dance, is both extended and tamed by the classical guitar. That’s partly what the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2018

Vyacheslav Gryaznov: Russian Transcriptions

The art of the piano transcription is alive and kicking – or, more accurately, alive and singing in the hands...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2018

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