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BEETHOVEN Les Vents Français

This is rather delicious, and features quite a range of salon music, from the pleasant galanteries of the various trios...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2017

JS BACH Trios

Bach arranged for cello, mandolin and double bass must be a first, so hats off to Yo Yo Ma, Chris...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2017

BACEWICZ Chamber Music

Time was the only music one encountered on disc by Grażyna Bacewicz was the Music for Strings, Trumpet and Percussion...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2017

Rococo - Musique à Sanssouci

‘Rococo’, for which Dorothee Oberlinger directs the brilliant Ensemble 1700, may be themed around Sanssouci but this is no narrow...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2017

Piano Concertos Vol 2

This discerning programme of French concertos from the first half of the 20th century is the worthy sequel to a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2017

Op 2

First to arrive was a CD called ‘Equal’ (7/16), the focus there being Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and now we have...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2017

Daniel Hope: For Seasons

Daniel Hope’s ‘For Seasons’ album is struggling to be high-concept but much of the music that supports the concept is...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Andrew Manze takes a markedly more objective view of RVW’s A Pastoral Symphony than most of his rival interpreters on...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017

A Sousa Celebration

I have always had a soft spot for Sousa. A Columbia 78 in my parent’s collection was an early favourite...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2017

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 1 & 6

The solo clarinet that stands on the threshold of Sibelius’s symphonic journey is quite simply the palest, chilliest, loneliest sound...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2017

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