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PEJAČEVIĆ Chamber Music

Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) died at the age of 38 from complications following childbirth, yet the Croatian composer left behind a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024

MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte (Michael Barenboim)

Hackles might rise at the idea of tampering with Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, those piano gems from that fecund period...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024

KORNGOLD String Sextet TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence

Funny, the unconscious prejudices one acquires. Not that I’ve ever thought of the Nash Ensemble as anything other than excellent;...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024

FAURÉ; GRIEG; R STRAUSS '1883'

Two sonatas written in 1883, Strauss’s the work of a precociously gifted 16-year-old who would up his game four years...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024

EASTMAN Femenine

The rise of Julius Eastman as one of the most significant composers of his generation remains one of the most...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024

DVOŘÁK; GIDDENS; PRICE String Quartets 'But Not My Soul'

Florence Price’s Second Quartet (1935) may not, quite, reach the level of Dvořák’s celebrated American Quartet but it is a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2024

CRUMB 'Complete Crumb Edition, Vol 21'

Long in the making perhaps but, 42 years and 20 releases on, Bridge has fulfilled its plan for a Complete...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2024

COOPER Oculus

For evidence of the blurred boundaries that keep shifting between music for the concert hall and compositions written for film...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024

BUSONI Violin Sonatas (Nicola Bignami)

In his June 1937 editorial, Compton Mackenzie remarked that Elgar once told him that he considered Busoni ‘the greatest musical...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Rachel Kolly)

On first hearing, this new set of Brahms violin sonatas by Rachel Kolly and Christian Chamorel makes a curious impression:...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024

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