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MOZART Violin Sonatas

Call me a killjoy, but my pulse rate rarely quickens at the prospect of Mozart’s pre-pubescent music. The three childhood...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2016

MOZART String Quartets K387 & K458

The line between poetry and preciousness is a thin one, and I don’t feel the Hagens reliably locate it here....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2016

D MATTHEWS Complete String Quartets Vol 4

Beethoven is the obvious and fully acknowledged godparent to David Matthews’s string quartets, and it is to his influence that...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2016

FORQUERAY5 Suites for Viol

With the exception of some of the big pièces de caractère of Marin Marais, the five suites for bass viol...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2016

FELDMAN Patterns in a Chromatic Field

When, in 2004, John Zorn’s Tzadik label declared its new recording of Morton Feldman’s 1981 cello-and-piano work Patterns in a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016

R CLARKE Works for Viola

Who was Rebecca Clarke? You’d be forgiven for asking. Today she’s largely forgotten. In her own opinion her only ‘one...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 05/2016

BRUCH String Quartets, Piano Quintet

When Max Bruch’s music was compared unfavourably to Brahms’s, he had his excuse ready: the pram in the hall. ‘I...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2016

Christina & Michelle Naughton: Visions

Four years after their impressive debut release on Orfeo, the twin-sister piano duo Christina and Michelle Naughton begin a relationship...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2016

Arias for Domenico Annibali

Domenico Annibali (c1705-c1779) was employed at the Dresden court opera from 1730 until his retirement in 1764 – but from...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016

Maximilian Schmitt: How Friendly the Day Shines

Perhaps still more known as an early music and Lieder singer, Maximilian Schmitt has made a pertinent selection for his...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2016

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