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GÓRECKI Symphony No 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’

My first, instinctive, impression of the first movement in this live recording – made in 1995 – was that it...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2018

BENEVOLO Missa Si Deus pro nobis. Magnificat

This is a project that has been 20 years in the making. In 1996 Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018

Russian Romantics

The corpus of 19th-century Russian music for violin and piano being less than might be supposed, Hideko Udagawa has created...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2018

STRAVINSKY Music for Violin, Vol 2

When reviewing the first volume of Ilya Gringolts’s Stravinsky series (A/17), I cited Anthony Marwood (Hyperion, 3/10) as the main...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2018

RAVEL; SZYMANOWSKI String Quartets (Quatour Joachim)

Quatuor Joachim describe themselves as ‘half French, half Polish’. Warmly reviewed in French repertoire, they’ve conceived this mixed programme of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2018

PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas (Conunova & Lifitis; Pritchin & Favorin)

I’d heard Michail Lifits on the superb recital disc he made with the highly individual Vilde Frang (EMI, 9/11), but...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2018

PIAZZOLLA Ángeles y Diablos

This is the third Piazzolla album by the Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble. As with the previous entries, the players are...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2018

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets (Tippett Quartet)

The Tippett Quartet first came to my attention playing the music of their namesake on Naxos, and they’ve since been...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2018

JANÁCEK; MARTINU; PÁLENÍCEK "Whispering Leaves"

This is a beautifully constructed and rather beautifully played recital of Czech music for cello and piano. At its heart...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018

HANDEL Violin Sonatas (Brook Street Band)

It’s funny what knots scholarliness can get us tangled into when it comes to authenticity. I say this in the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2018

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