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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

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

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