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PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Duos

Prokofiev’s Sonata for two violins is one of his hardest nuts to crack. Written to commission in 1932, it is...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2023

MOZART Piano Quartets (Dego, Ridout, van der Heijden, Colli)

I found this coupling both fascinating and exasperating. Federico Colli is a pianist on a mission, and that mission is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2023

E MAYER String Quartets Vol 1

The north German composer Emilie Mayer seems to have turned to chamber music in Berlin in the mid-1850s, largely –...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2023

FELDMAN Violin and String Quartet

Morton Feldman’s late style is an enigma wrapped in a paradox. For a start, economies of scale don’t measure up....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2023

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas (Yu Kosuge)

We’re so accustomed these days to talking about Brahms’s two ‘cello sonatas’ that it’s rarely if ever mentioned that Brahms...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2023

CPE BACH Violin Sonatas (Rachel Podger)

CPE Bach’s life spanned three-quarters of the 18th century – that period from the dying days of the Baroque, its...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2023

Songs for our Times

With all the talk in recent years about increasing the representation of Black and Latin artists in classical music, it...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2023

Overtures From Finland

The connection between nine of the 10 works here is to show that Sibelius did not emerge from or operate...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023

Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana

A few years ago the horn player Sarah Willis fell in love with the music and culture of Cuba. This...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2023

Bacchanale: Saint-Saëns et la Méditerranée

Camille Saint-Saëns certainly caught the travel bug. The composer was an intrepid tourist and often wintered in warmer climes: Italy,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

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