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Ellen Nisbeth: Let Beauty Awake

The brisk, march-like tread; the bracing swing of the melody: you might already know Vaughan Williams’s ‘The Vagabond’, but you...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

Garden Party

With two highly contrasting album releases already under her belt this year (the premiere recording of Sean Hickey’s recorder concerto The...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2017

Fuga Magna

Hands up all those wondering whether a recording devoted entirely to fugues may have more than a whiff of scholarly seriousness...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2017

From Latin America to Paris

This engaging disc finds Lionel Cottet, the Swiss-born principal cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, teaming up with the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

Robert Plane: Contrasts, Impressions of Hungary

Robert Plane is always inquiring as to repertoire and his new disc surveys almost six decades of Hungarian music, beginning with...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017

The Clarinotts

A recital of lollipops and transcriptions by a humorously named clarinet trio: you might think you know what to expect from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2017

From Imperial Vienna

‘Aus kaiserliche Zeit – From Imperial Vienna’ implies a concept, juxtaposing the music of three composers of different generations and unearthing...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017

SCHOENBERG String Quartets Nos 2 & 4

If it’s too easy to discuss Schoenberg’s Fourth Quartet in terms of Haydn with wrong notes, the Gringolts nonetheless helpfully...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2017

HOPE Ephemeral Rivers

Alongside Liza Lim, almost her exact contemporary, composer Cat Hope (b1966) has emerged as one of Australia’s most exciting and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2017

I HOLST String Chamber Music

This is a delightful, intelligently programmed disc, charting the development of a composer known more as a famous composer’s daughter (and another’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2017

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