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SZYMANOWSKI; DEBUSSY String Quartets

How do you like your Szymanowski: Romantic sunset or modernist dawn? On its second release, the Meccore Quartet – an...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

BRAHMS 3 String Quartets. Piano Quintet

In 2003 the Belcea Quartet recorded a nerves-on-a-knife’s-edge account of Brahms’s C minor Quartet (Op 51 No 1) for EMI....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2016

BEETHOVEN; MENDELSSOHN String Quartets

This fifth release on the Sacconi Quartet’s own label comprises two quartets in A minor: Beethoven’s Op 132, and Op...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

JS BACH Flute Sonatas

JS Bach’s sonatas for transverse flute and harpsichord throw up all sorts of awkward questions for musicologists, not least the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2016

JS BACH Violin Sonata No 4 SCHUMANN 3 Fantasiestücke

‘Oh my God! I would love to play with her’ is Itzhak Perlman’s exclamation in the single-page conversation that precedes...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2016

JS BACH The Art of Fugue

Since no one knows if Bach actually intended anyone to play The Art of Fugue at all – it was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 10

‘It seems that the Ninth is a limit. He who wants to go beyond it must pass away. It seems...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29

Grigory Sokolov’s 1975 recording of the Hammerklavier Sonata is a minute faster overall than his live account from the 2013...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW16

BRITTEN The Rape of Lucretia

Fiona Shaw’s production of Britten’s first chamber opera opened during the Glyndebourne tour in 2013 – the composer’s centenary year...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16

GOLDMARK Königin von Saba

Die Königin von Saba was the work that put its Hungarian-Jewish composer on the operatic map at its first performance...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16

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