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Robert Plane: Contrasts, Impressions of Hungary

Robert Plane is always inquiring as to repertoire and his new disc surveys almost six decades of Hungarian music, beginning with...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017

The Clarinotts

A recital of lollipops and transcriptions by a humorously named clarinet trio: you might think you know what to expect from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2017

From Imperial Vienna

‘Aus kaiserliche Zeit – From Imperial Vienna’ implies a concept, juxtaposing the music of three composers of different generations and unearthing...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017

SCHOENBERG String Quartets Nos 2 & 4

If it’s too easy to discuss Schoenberg’s Fourth Quartet in terms of Haydn with wrong notes, the Gringolts nonetheless helpfully...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2017

HOPE Ephemeral Rivers

Alongside Liza Lim, almost her exact contemporary, composer Cat Hope (b1966) has emerged as one of Australia’s most exciting and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2017

I HOLST String Chamber Music

This is a delightful, intelligently programmed disc, charting the development of a composer known more as a famous composer’s daughter (and another’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2017

EBEN String Quartet. Piano Trio. Piano Quintet

For all that Petr Eben – former president of the Prague Spring Festival – was perhaps the most highly respected composer in...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 10/2017

DVOŘÁK String Quintet Op 97. String Quartet Op 105

The pairing of the Takács Quartet and viola player Lawrence Power has already proved a winning one in Brahms and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas

Jozef Lupták and Ivo Varbanov’s recording of the E minor First Sonata begins well. They step steadily, almost stealthily, through the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2017

Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum

Danacord’s annual selection of highlights from the previous year’s Husum Festival represents, on this occasion, something of a milestone. The 2016...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017

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