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After the Tryst: New music for saxophone and piano

The saxophone repertoire has expanded considerably over recent decades, though the soprano instrument still tends to be overlooked owing to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018

ZELENKA Trio Sonatas ZWV181

A lot of water has gone under the bridge since Heinz Holliger first rediscovered and recorded Zelenka’s six sonatas for...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2018

VENABLES Below the Belt

If you only buy one classical disc advocating LSD and sodomy, make it this one. Philip Venables’s debut disc appears...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2018

SCHUMANN String Quartets Nos 2 & 3 (Elias Quartet)

In 2010 the Elias Quartet played the first of Schumann’s three string quartets at Wigmore Hall – a richly characterised,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018

RUEHR Six String Quartets

Avie’s third release of music by Elena Ruehr (b1963) follows two well-received predecessors (11/12; 2/15) and other issues on Albany,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018

J JENKINS Complete Four-Part Consort Music

It may seem unfortunate for a two-CD set to total only 83 minutes, but then this is John Jenkins’s ‘complete...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2018

GLIÉRE 12 Album Leaves. RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata

Up until now, when I’ve thought about Reinhold Glière, I’ve tended to think big and bold: the Russian Sailors’ Dance...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2018

GLASS Music with Changing Parts

Lying between Glass’s early, strict minimalist pieces of the late 1960s (Music in Fifths and Music in Similar Motion) and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2018

A & J-B FORQUERAY Complete Works

‘Exceptional in almost every way’ best describes this beautifully produced box-set devoted to the lives and legacy of the Forquerays,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2018

EÖTVÖS The Sirens Cycle. Korrespondenz

James Joyce is to contemporary music what Shakespeare was to the Romantics. In the case of the Sirens episode from...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2018

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