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MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 5 & 6

With this, we reach the concluding disc of the Mendelssohn cycle by the Escher Quartet. As with previous instalments (8/15...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2016

Cluster Ensemble Plays Glass

In his recent memoir, Words Without Music (Faber, 7/15), Philip Glass was keen to put paid to the rumour that...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2016

EASTMAN Femenine

Gramophone readers will forever associate Julius Eastman with Peter Maxwell Davies’s own 1970 recording of Eight Songs for a Mad...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2016

ZEMLINSKY; BRUCKNER String Quintets

The Bartholdy Quintet was formed in 2009 as a two-viola string quintet, and I can’t, off the top of my...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2

Talk about spoiling the ship for a ha’porth of tar. Actually, don’t: the art of balancing piano and strings on...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

BEETHOVEN Complete Violin Sonatas

This set of the 10 Beethoven violin sonatas took me by surprise. Let’s start with the sound, which is exceptionally...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016

BARTÓK String Quartets Nos 2, 4 & 6

Relistening to the Emerson Quartet’s Gramophone Award-winning Bartók cycle for September’s Classics Reconsidered, I was reminded of how, as recently...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

Trios from our Homelands

It’s not exactly a recipe for cohesion – a collection of little-known works from Armenia, England and Switzerland, representing the...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 12/2016

In War and Peace

Writing in 1916, Yeats spoke of ‘Art whose end is peace’. Now, 100 turbulent years later, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato returns...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2016

The Sun Most Radiant

With this instalment of music from the Eton Choirbook, the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral sets out to rival The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2016

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