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RAVEL; DUTILLEUX; DEBUSSY String Quartets

Since the advent of CD, Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit has become a regular companion piece to the long-familiar pairing of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2018

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 (Eyblet Quartet)

It’s easy to forget that when Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets appeared in 1801 Haydn had yet to publish his own...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2018

BEETHOVEN Music for Winds

The playing of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s wind section was a highlight of Robin Ticciati’s recent recording of the Brahms...

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

Speculation on JS Bach – Reconstructed Chamber Music & Chorals’

The chorale melody was the cantus firmus of Bach’s art, its generative, motivating force, its divine metaphor. It serves a...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2018

ABRAHAMSEN String Quartets Nos 1 - 4

This backwards-looking survey of Hans Abrahamsen’s four string quartets, starting with the most recent from 2012 and finishing with the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018

In Rehearsal

At the time of going to press all six conductors featured on this set are still with us, but reminders...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018

Music of the Americas

‘The common denominator in all of these works is the rhythm which is highly articulated, flexible and energised’, writes Andrés...

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

Daniel Hope: Journey to Mozart

You could never accuse Daniel Hope of going for the obvious. Rather than record yet another album of Mozart concertos,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018

Gabrieli for Brass

As Royal Academy of Music Principal Jonathan Freeman-Attwood reminds us in the booklet for this recording, performances of Gabrieli’s ensemble...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2018

Donaueschinger Musiktage 2016

Fast approaching its centenary, the Donaueschinger Musiktage continues as a beacon for European music of what might still be called...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018

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