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A POOLE Sonata, Divisions & Dances

Anthony Poole (c1629-1692) is an obscure composer, no doubt of that. The catalogue of his works runs to over 300...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2016

Nils Mönkemeyer: Mozart with Friends

Mozart’s penchant for lower-voiced instruments found one of its finest chamber outlets in the Kegelstatt Trio, K498, supposedly composed during...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016

HAYDN Piano Trios

Eighteenth-century keyboard trios were regularly billed as ‘sonatas for the harpsichord or fortepiano, with the accompaniment of violin and violoncello’....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016

FINNISSY Beat Generation Ballads. First Political Agenda. Singular Voices

The writer Iain Sinclair once told me in an interview that Beat culture provided him with a very necessary escape...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas

When Brahms played through his First Cello Sonata with its dedicatee, Josef Gänsbacher, the cellist apparently complained that he couldn’t...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

ABRAHAMSEN Landscapes. Walden

The Ophelia of Hans Abrahamsen’s let me tell you (2013), the contemporary ‘work of the moment’, surrenders to the deadly...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016

STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel ZEMLINSKY Die Seejungfrau

It maybe seems a bit unfair to pit Strauss’s brilliant Till Eulengspiegel against Die Seejungfrau, more of a slow-burn affair...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2016

VAN DER AA Violin Concerto. Hysteresis

Van der Aa acolytes may be surprised at the lack of a visual element in his new Violin Concerto (2014),...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016

STOJOWSKI Violin Concerto. Romance

Bartomiej Nizio (b1974 in Poland) has a seductively silky smooth tone and a narrow vibrato, and plays with exactly the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

STOCK Concertos

When the Pittsburgh composer David Stock died last year, aged 76, he was celebrated for the hearty contributions he had...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 08/2016

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