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C RILEY Shenanigans

That Colin Riley (b1963) is, in his own words, ‘a composer of no fixed indoctrination’ feels less provocative a statement than...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2017

REICHA Chamber Music

Antoine Reicha’s reputation has long been hampered by the air of academicism that clings to it. A Czech-born contemporary of Beethoven,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2017

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 2 & 4. 4 Pieces. Frage

'He had the smallest modicum possible of the phlegmatic, and the maximum of the opposite quality.’ Goethe’s characterisation of the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2017

KABALEVSKY String Quartets 1 & 2

'At the beginning one does not expect much from this piece completed under the tutelage of Nikolay Myaskovsky on November 20, 1928;...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2017

IVES Piano Sonata No 2. Violin Sonata No 4

For all its fearsome reputation, whether technically or conceptually, Ives’s Concord Sonata has built a sizeable discography such that any addition...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2017

HINDEMTIH; SCHOENBERG String Trios

These three highly contrasted string trios, written at roughly 10-year intervals between 1924 and 1946, almost chart the course of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017

DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet No 2. String Quintet Op 97

Just a month after the Takács and Laurence Power impressed with their Dvořák Op 97 Quintet comes this one from the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2017

BRAHMS Three Piano Trios

Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma’s recording of Brahms’s Piano Quartets – winner of Gramophone’s 1991 Chamber Music Award – was made with...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Trios

The Oliver Schnyder Trio sprint through the opening movement of Beethoven’s Op 1 No 1, outpacing both the Florestan Trio and the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas (Hanslip)

I’d looked forward to this disc. Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver are both engaging and extremely accomplished artists, and this release,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2017

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