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Clarinet Fantasies

The main novelty here is Martin Butler’s Barlow Dale: Four Characteristic Pieces, written in 1977 when the composer was just...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2018

SCHUMANN String Quartets Op 41

Not all the members of the Zurich-based Stradivari Quartet play instruments made by the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari. Sebastian Bohren...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018

REICH Pulse. Quartet

From the funky maracas in Four Organs to the famous pulsing chords that are heard at the beginning of Music...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2018

RAUTAVAARA Cello Sonatas

Rautavaara may have moved away from avant-gardism in favour of mystic neo-Romanticism but the works assembled here show that he...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2018

MOZART Violin Sonatas Vol 5 (Ibragimova & Tiberghien)

If ever a Mozart recording were self-recommending, this is it. The first four volumes of the French-Russian duo’s complete sonata...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2018

MARAIS Pièces de viole COUPERIN Les barricades mystérieuses

If you’re thinking ‘ah, just another recording of French viol pieces’, think again. You couldn’t be more wrong. This recording...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2018

ROSSINI String Sonatas Nos 1-3 HOFFMEISTER Solo Quartets Nos 1&2

Hoffmeister and Rossini appear, on the face of it, to be an odd couple indeed. Certainly I can locate no...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2018

HAYDN Six String Quartets, Op 64 (Doric Quartet)

As in earlier volumes of their Haydn series, the Doric often dazzle, occasionally frustrate, in these, the last works Haydn...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2018

FRANCK; GRIEG; LISZT Violin Sonatas, Elegies

If you’ve ever played a musical version of Six Degrees of Separation, you’ll quickly have realised that there aren’t many...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2018

DOWLAND Lachrimae (Les Voix Humaines)

Seven meditations on a shared theme, both musical and emotional, John Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares is much more than...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2018

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