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EBEN String Quartet. Piano Trio. Piano Quintet

For all that Petr Eben – former president of the Prague Spring Festival – was perhaps the most highly respected composer in...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 10/2017

DVOŘÁK String Quintet Op 97. String Quartet Op 105

The pairing of the Takács Quartet and viola player Lawrence Power has already proved a winning one in Brahms and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas

Jozef Lupták and Ivo Varbanov’s recording of the E minor First Sonata begins well. They step steadily, almost stealthily, through the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2017

Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum

Danacord’s annual selection of highlights from the previous year’s Husum Festival represents, on this occasion, something of a milestone. The 2016...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017

Piano Music of Palestinian Composers

Palestinian classical composition remains a largely unknown quantity, even though numerous practitioners were based at least partially in the West....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017

The Operatic Pianist II

With origins dating back to the 18th century, the opera fantasy reached its artistic peak during the 19th in the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

George Li: Live at the Mariinsky

A photograph of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition silver medallist on the disc cover shows a young man looking into the camera...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017

Afierossis: 20th & 21st-century works for cello solo

The Greek word ‘afierossis’ is a portmanteau of ‘dedication’ and ‘sacred’. On this impressive recording, the Athens-born cellist Michael Heupel explores...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2017

TELEMANN Fantasias for Viola da Gamba

As if playing such a ravishing instrument were not enough, exponents of the viola da gamba must be feeling especially...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

STERNDALE BENNETT Piano Sonata SCHUMANN Symphonic Etudes

The long-neglected British composer William Sterndale Bennett moved in the highest musical circles, being a close friend of both Mendelssohn...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017

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