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TCHAIKOVSKY; SMETANA Piano Trios

Among these piano trios’ defining features, optimism does not loom high. Smetana’s mourns his eldest daughter Bedřiška, who had just...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2016

Schubertiade

This is the second release on Alpha to celebrate the 70th birthday of Jos van Immerseel. The first was a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2016

MUFFAT Florilegium primum

Performers’ interest in the music of Georg Muffat has always centred on his Armonico tributo of 1682, in which he...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

The Cecilia Quartet came to international attention when they won the 2010 Banff Quartet Competition. These days they combine an...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2016

SCHUMANN; HILLER Piano Quintets

Period-instrument recordings of Schumann’s chamber masterpiece didn’t much impress me when I surveyed them for a Gramophone Collection (12/07). This...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016

GRAINGER Music for Saxophones

Niche is the word. Joyce Griggs gives us 50 minutes’ worth of Percy Grainger’s transcriptions and arrangements for saxophone ensemble...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2016

GLASS String Quartet No 5. String Sextet

The Carducci Quartet’s impressive debut recording on Naxos featured the first four of Philip Glass’s string quartets (9/10). This release...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2016

DVOŘÁK Piano Quartets

Dvořák’s masterly piano quartets find the augmented London Bridge Trio (Gary Pomeroy takes the viola line) offering sensitive, well-integrated readings...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016

BRAHMS; HINDEMITH; REGER Clarinet Quintets

The playing of Richard Mühlfeld coaxed Johannes Brahms out of retirement, into a glorious Indian summer yielding such works as...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016

SCHUBERT; BRAHMS Piano Duos. Cello Sonatas

When Pieter Wispelwey points out that by playing neither the violin, viola, flute or arpeggione he’s missing out on no...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2016

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