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Russian Works for Cello and Piano

Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata begins with a melody low on the C string, and no expression markings: just the instruction piena...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018

TELEMANN Trio Sonatas for Recorder

Look down the recording details at the back of the average CD and it’s rare to find the hour of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2018

SCHUBERT String Quartet No 15

The Artea Quartet have been playing together for 15 years so it’s a neat choice to record Schubert’s 15th Quartet....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018

MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time

Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (1940 41) is arguably the 20th century’s most startling musical portrayal of social...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2018

MOZART; SCHUMANN; MAHLER Piano Quartets

The Berlin Piano Quartet offer an unusual line-up of composers, including the only complete movement of Mahler’s teenage Piano Quartet....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018

Dover Quartet: Voices of Defiance

With extremism once more an ever-present fact of life, the timing of this disc, featuring three string quartets protesting Europe’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2018

SCHUMANN Trio No 1 DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No 4

There’s much to admire in the Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch’s interpretation of Schumann’s D minor Trio: the expressive shaping of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018

SCHUMANN Quartet BRAHMS Quintet

There’s no lack of personalities on display here, but unlike the recent Trout Quintet, indubitably led by Anne-Sophie Mutter (DG,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018

BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Vol 4

You can tell a lot about a performance of Beethoven’s Quartet Op 18 No 2 from its first bar. It’s...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018

JS BACH Variations on Variations

‘Variations on Variations’ sees Rinaldo Alessandrini take keyboard works by JS Bach which adopt the variation as their generating musical...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2018

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