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Avital Meets Avital

Billed as ‘classical crossover’, there is nothing classical about ‘Avital Meets Avital’ – unless you count the fact that Avi...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2017

The Alehouse Sessions: Traditional Tunes and Arrangements

There are some things you just can’t fake. The chemistry of a group is one of those – the sparks...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017

REGER Clarinet Sonatas

A cautionary tale, courtesy of Nicholas Marston’s booklet note: Reger bartered the dedication of his First Clarinet Sonata to a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2017

MELLITS String Quartets Nos 3-5

The American composer Marc Mellits cut his creative teeth transcribing Steve Reich while absorbing the music of post-minimalists such as...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2017

LAKS Chamber Works

Volume 3 of the ARC Ensemble’s Music in Exile series profiles Szymon Laks, who moved to Paris from Warsaw in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2017

HAYDN String Quartets Op 20 Nos 4-6

The 40-year-old Haydn seems to have conceived his Op 20 quartets as a showcase for his newly won technical and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2017

GOUGH The World Encompassed

When Francis Drake set sail in 1577 to circumnavigate the globe, he took with him four violists and sundry other...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017

FRANCK; POULENC; SAINT-SAËNS Violin Sonatas

‘Frankly no good’: Poulenc’s verdict on his only Violin Sonata was damning, but there’s no reason why we have to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017

FELDMAN Patterns in a Chromatic Field

This 1993 recording of Morton Feldman’s cello-and-piano piece Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981) is a pioneering document, a recording...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2017

FAURÉ Music for Cello and Piano

This is a comprehensive collection of Fauré’s ‘official’ music for cello and piano – which is to say, it excludes...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2017

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