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SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2. Viola Sonata

It is becoming ever more routine to couple both Shostakovich piano trios together, and with the half-hour Viola Sonata and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016

SCHOENBERG String Quartets Nos 1 - 4

The Cologne-based Asasello Quartet have programmed Arnold Schoenberg’s four string quartets in reverse order, a journey from the natty arithmetic...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2016

SCHNITTKE Works for Violin & Piano

In the booklet Roman Mints writes of a pre first sonata of Schnittke that he decided not to record because...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016

REICH Double Sextet. Radio Rewrite

Steve Reich will be 80 this year – a landmark date that will no doubt encourage some to reflect on...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2016

MOZART Piano Trios KV 502, 542 & 564

Mozart’s piano trios don’t come out to play as often as Haydn’s, despite being among his finest chamber works. (Similarly...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016

LEGRENZI Sonate & Balletti

Like so many 17th-century Italian musicians, Giovanni Legrenzi led a peripatetic life. Following a conventional enough start to his career...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2016

IVES Violin Sonatas Nos 1 - 4

The four violin sonatas that Charles Ives assembled between 1902 and 1915 have never been big hitters in the same...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2016

DVOŘÁK Piano Trios Nos 3 & 4

Naming your new trio after one of the greatest chamber ensembles of the 20th century certainly suggests noble aspirations, and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016

R CLARKE Music for Cello and Piano

Perhaps Rebecca Clarke’s time is finally approaching. It is only a few months since the Italian viola player Diana Bonatesta...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 09/2016

CERHA Chamber Music

Through his early studies with Josef Polnauer, a member of the Schoenberg circle, Friedrich Cerha is one of the few...

Reviewed in issue 09/2016

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