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PLEYEL String Quartets

Ignaz Pleyel is one of those figures who seems to pop up everywhere: as both composition student of Haydn and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

ONSLOW String Quintets nos 20 & 26

Amateur chamber musicians will need no introduction to Georges Onslow. One of his 30-odd two-cello quintets usually gets pulled from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

MOZART String Quintets Nos 5 & 6

The Chilingirian’s cycle of Mozart’s six string quintets has been nine years in the making and I’m sorry to have...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2016

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

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