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HAYDN Complete Piano Trios Vol 3 (Trio Gaspard)

Trio Gaspard return with a third selection from across Haydn’s output of piano trios. The C major and E minor...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024

HANDEL Complete Violin Sonatas (Bojan Čičić)

It’s beginning to feel a bit like buses with Bojan Čičić: you spend ages thinking how enjoyable it would be...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024

COUPERIN Concerts Royaux

Couperin’s four Concerts royaux – each a suite of about half a dozen devilishly attractive instrumental movements, mostly dances –...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024

CHAUSSON Concert in D major LEKEU Violin Sonata

How to do written justice to the delights here in hand? Artists-wise, this is a first-ever solo album from Quatuor...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024

BRAHMS Complete Piano Quartets

This recording of Brahms’s piano quartets featuring the great Hungarian cellist Miklós Perényi, now in his 70s, and a trio...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024

BAKER The Tyranny of Fun

Good things come to those who wait, so the saying goes, and in Richard Baker’s case, it’s been a particularly...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

BAERMANN Clarinet Quintets

Mozart had Anton Stadler and Brahms had Richard Mühlfeld – clarinettists who inspired late masterpieces for their instrument. Heinrich Joseph...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies (Järvi)

These days we no longer need be defensive about the Reformation, trashed by Mendelssohn himself, or the symphony-cantata Lobgesang, once...

Reviewed in issue 05/2024

Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate

Which is the most important: the journey or its destination? For Gidon Kremer, whose professional career has spanned over half...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

STRAUSS Josephslegende (Bollon)

Josephslegende, the first of Strauss’s two ballets, was composed to a scenario by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Anglo-German count...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2024

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