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PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2

The Prokofiev violin repertoire has been very fruitfully tapped in recent times, and this new release of the two sonatas...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2017

HAYDN; SCHUBERT String Quartets

On the face it these two works, composed at either end of the string quartet’s golden age, make unlikely bedfellows....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2017

Tasmin Little plays Franck, Szymanowski, and Fauré

It occurred to me while listening to this sensitively planned programme that the vintage violinist who Tasmin Little most reminds...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2017

CLARKE A Different Game

As Axel Klein’s introductory note suggests, Irish new music is a significant yet relatively unknown facet of the European scene...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017

CHAUSSON Concert FRANCK Violin Sonata

Chausson’s Concert for violin, piano and string quartet is chamber music, of course, yet displays a symphonic character that justifies...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2017

BUXTEHUDE Trio Sonatas

During the late 1600s, when Dieterich Buxtehude was organist of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, the town council received a wonderful...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2017

BRAHMS Piano Quintet. SCHUMANN String Quartet No 1

Most pianists approach the Brahms Quintet with a degree of trepidation, for it’s a big play and there’s a lot...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017

Lettres intimes

Amatory love is the subtext of the first and last works on this imaginatively planned European programme, the ‘intimate letters’...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2017

Notos Quartett: Hungarian Treasures

If this is indeed the first commercial recording of a substantial but lost chamber work by Bartók, one’s instinctive reaction...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2017

JS BACH Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV1014 1019

Even before hitting the stereo, this first solo recording from violinist Chiara Zanisi was looking rich with promise, because while...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2017

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