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CATOIRE Violin Sonata No 1. Violin Sonata 'Poeme'

A lightning-flash of piano semiquavers, the violin pulls itself defiantly up to its full height, and Georgy Catoire’s First Violin...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016

F J CASTRO Trio Sonatas

Trattenimenti armonici da camera (Bologna, 1695) was the first publication by Francisco José de Castro, an Andalusian Jesuit probably trained...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 2, 4 & 9

A note in the booklet by these Belgian artists – still in their twenties – says that their duo partnership...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 09/2016

BARTÓK; SCHNITTKE; LUTOSLAWSKI Music For Violin And Piano

In her booklet-notes, violinist Miranda Cuckson claims a personal connection to this all-Slavic cocktail: ancestors of her Viennese grandfather apparently...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 09/2016

Polish Violin Concertos

It says something when the most familiar piece on a disc is Andrzej Panufnik’s Violin Concerto. In fact these four...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016

Music at the Habsburg Court

During the 17th and 18th centuries, Vienna’s Habsburg Court was one of the foremost political and cultural centres in Europe....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016

Favourite English Strings

Sakari Oramo and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra give us a finely disciplined Frank Bridge Variations of pungent character, fiery snap...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2016

An English Fantasy

Here’s an amiable disc exploring the light end of contemporary clarinet composition in works written especially for soloist Emma Johnson....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016

Brandenburg Celebrates

It wouldn’t do to allow one’s imagination to stray too far over the cover artwork to this 25th-anniversary studio recording...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016

YSAŸE Neiges d’antan and other poems

The poème, wrote Eugène Ysaÿe, ‘is free from all the restrictions imposed by the hallowed concerto form; it can be...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016

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