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JS BACH Orchestral Suites Nos 1, 3 & 4

Scholars speculate that some or all of Bach’s extant orchestral suites originated many years before their earliest surviving Leipzig sources....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

As has often been the case since his Bach Pilgrimage of 2000, the John Eliot Gardiner of this new, second...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2017

FARINA Sonate e Canzoni

I confess my eyes lit up at the sight of this release from Leila Schayegh, the Swiss violinist whose version...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2017

TELEMANN Sonatas, Sonatinas and Fantasias

Just when you thought there might be a break in these pages from 2016’s steady flow of recordings marking Telemann’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2017

RAVEL; PROKOFIEV; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas

Tobias Feldmann and Boris Kusnezow make their debut on Alpha with this unusually titled disc which, the 25-year-old German violinist...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

HVOSLEF Chamber Works No III

LAWO continues its series devoted to the chamber music of Ketil Hvoslef (Vol 1 was reviewed in 4/15) with this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2017

FRICKER String Quartets

The success of the Heath Quartet’s Gramophone Award-winning Tippett cycle spotlit the tip of the iceberg of a huge body...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2017

DVOŘÁK Piano Trios Nos 3 & 4

Unlike the Florestan Trio, who celebrated their birth with these very two Dvořák trios, the Wanderer have waited 30 years...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

CRANE 6 Trios, 2 Solos and 1 Quintet

Another month, another disc from the British composer Laurence Crane, which suggests that the concerted efforts of labels such as...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2017

BRAHMS Piano Quartet No 2 MAHLER Piano Quartet

In January I enthused about the first instalment of Brahms piano quartets from this Russo-German alliance. Now comes the remaining...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

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