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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

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3

Ingolf Turban marks 30 years of performing with the release of this recital recorded live in Munich last April. He...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

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