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YSAŸE; CHAUSSON; BOUCHKOV Violin Works

In a sense, there are three artists on this disc from Marc Bouchkov and Georgiy Dubko. This isn’t just a...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2017

BRAHMS Complete Piano Trios and Quartets

The Gould Piano Trio recorded Brahms’s piano trios between 2004 and 2007, beginning with the three published works, then adding...

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

JS BACH The Musical Offering

Recordings of the Musical Offering often make much of the order in which it is played. The authority of Bach’s...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017

BACH; BUSONI; BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (Shiokawa)

Is it really more than 15 years since the previous ECM collaboration between violinist Yuuko Shiokawa and her pianist husband...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2018

Silver Voice: Opera Arias played by Flute and Orchestra

Katherine Bryan’s previous disc, ‘Silver Bow’ (11/15), saw the flautist tackle a series of string works rearranged for her instrument....

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

WEBER Clarinet Concerto. Grand duo concertant

Following discs of Brahms and Hindemith on Mirare, Raphaël Sévère – 21 at the time of this recording – turns...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2018

VIRTAPERKO Romer's Gap; Multikolor; Ambrosian Delights

Among younger Finnish composers, Olli Virtaperko (b1973) certainly ranks among the most striking, as is witnessed by the three concertos...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018

TIPPETT Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

This disc launches the first 21st-century cycle of Tippett’s symphonies, and does so in great style. During the later years...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY Complete Symphonies Live in Concert

Good things, they say, come to those who wait. The first instalment of Vladimir Jurowski’s Tchaikovsky cycle – the Manfred...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Tod und Verklärung

This is the second release in a projected survey of Strauss tone poems from Kent Nagano and the Gothenburg Symphony...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2018

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