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Robert Fuchs is a largely forgotten name these days but in 19th-century Vienna he was very much an established part...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024
The rhetorical question arises, listening to this particular instrumental line-up: why doesn’t every composer write a horn trio? In the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2024
Best known for his writings on music (notably The Power of the Moment; Pendragon Press: 2011), Martin Boykan (1931-2021) was...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024
As his extensive discography makes plain, clarinettist Guy Yehuda is always on the lookout to place Jewish-related music and Jewish...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024
These are, in their own modest way, quite daring interpretations of Beethoven’s six ‘early’ quartets. There have been other recordings...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2024
Artur Schnabel’s dictum that great music is always greater than it can ever be performed is never more apposite than...
Reviewed in issue 07/2024
The mid-18th-century Berlin court of Frederick the Great has been much visited by recording artists over the years, such that...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2024
There are now enough recordings of Pēteris Vasks’s first violin concerto Distant Light (1997) to furnish a Gramophone Collection. Here...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2024
For all his longevity and prolificacy, Florent Schmitt remains best remembered for a trilogy of pieces from the early 20th...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024
The most significant thing about Hyperion’s latest Romantic Piano Concerto instalment is its inclusion of Emil von Sauer’s Second Concerto...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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