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MCCABE Silver Nocturnes. The Woman by the Sea

Two and a half years after his death, McCabe’s music continues to appear on disc (witness also the marvellous recordings of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017

DVOŘÁK Piano Quartets (Busch Trio, da Silva)

Following their disc of Dvořák piano trios, which Rob Cowan much enjoyed (9/16), the Busch Trio are joined by viola player Miguel da Silva...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017

DEBUSSY Sonatas and Trio

‘The musical genius of France is something like fantasy in sensibility’, said Debussy, and if it’s still hard to swallow...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2017

CAGE Chess Pieces. Four Dances JOHNSON Rational Melodies

As David Lang indicates in his warmly opinionated booklet recollections, Tom Johnson (b1939) is best known as an insightful and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017

BRAHMS; JANÁČEK Clarinet Sonatas

These performances of Brahms’s clarinet sonatas have a feeling of spontaneity that suggests involved, intimate conversation. Shirley Brill and Jonathan Aner...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2017

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 7 & 10

Period instruments are to the fore here, an anonymous Italian violin from 1690 (the Gaulard bow dates from 1820), and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017

CPE BACH Sonatas for Viola da Gamba

The German viola da gambist Johanna Rose has already appeared on a fair few recordings, several of which have been...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

Lucienne: The Art of the Trumpet

Is it a sign of age or are trumpeters getting younger these days? By the time she was signed last...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

Dresden

It’s a nice disc that can make evident something you may have known about but never quite appreciated for yourself. In...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017

WALTON Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Karabits)

If memory serves, Martyn Brabbins was the last to pair both these masterworks on a single disc (with the BBC Scottish SO...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2017

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