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BRAHMS Piano Quartet No 3. Piano Trio No 1

It’s a decade ago now that Trio Wanderer recorded the three standard Brahms piano trios for Harmonia Mundi, in a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2016

BRAHMS Cello Soatas Nos 1 - 3

Solidly Russian-school and an eminently expressive cellist, Alexander Kniazev is in many ways perfectly suited to the Romanticism of Brahms’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2016

BEETHOVEN Complete Violin Sonatas

Two brand-new Beethoven cycles from two major violinists, born little more than a year apart. Tasmin Little has a long-standing...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2016

BARTÓK 44 Duos for 2 Violins

As Decca is somewhat shy about letting on exactly who the sisters Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu are (at least in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016

JS BACH Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord BWV1014-1019

Leila Schayegh is not yet among the most familiar names in the Baroque violin world, perhaps because the sonata recordings...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2016

Vienna Philharmonic: New Year's Concert 2016

A dog, we’re told, is not just for Christmas nor, in a great year, is Vienna’s New Year’s Day concert...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016

ZEMLINSKY Seven Songs. Chamber Symphony

Zemlinsky wrote neither a Chamber Symphony nor a song-cycle entitled Sieben Lieder von Nacht und Traum, and the works recorded...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. The Firebird

If you haven’t come across Colombian-born, Viennese trained Andrés Orozco-Estrada you soon will. Appointed Principal Guest Conductor to the London...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphonies

BIS has been here before, offering the same pair of Rudolf Barshai Shostakovich string quartet arrangements with Jean-Jacques Kantorow and...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3

These live recordings, finely played and boasting an impressive Concertgebouw-like bloom, were in fact made in Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016

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