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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

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

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