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MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 2 & 3

The Escher Quartet continue their Mendelssohn cycle with two highly contrasting works. This young American group respond particularly vividly to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015

JANÁČEK; SMETANA String Quartets

It’s never an easy ask, playing Janáček’s string quartets. Then playing them well. Then playing them this well. But the...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 10/2015

HAHN; SZYMANOWSKI Works for Violin and Piano

It might seem a strange idea to pair Reynaldo Hahn’s refined elegance with Szymanowski’s impressionistic, dramatic manner. However, the two...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015

GRIEG The Violin Sonatas

In a letter to Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Grieg assigned each of these sonatas – the heart of his chamber music –...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2015

FAURÉ; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas

It’s a real pleasure to find that Itzhak Perlman, after an absence of some years from the recording studio, has...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015

DEAN Epitaphs. String Quartets

That Brett Dean was a professional viola player for well over a decade only makes his writing for strings the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2015

CAGE Two3

The first sound you hear – the reedy tones of Wu Wei’s sheng smearing itself against Stefan Hussong’s husky accordion...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2015

BRITTEN Complete String Quartets

Although competition among DVDs of chamber music is rarely intense, this new release does have rivals. In 2005 Testament released...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue:

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 2 & 3 SCHUMANN 3 Romances

Having already recorded Brahms’s First Sonata, Op 78, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov complete the set with a performance of...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015

BERG Lyric Suite

First, hats off to the Belcea and Emerson quartets for astonishingly accurate and coordinated accounts of the Lyric Suite, even...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2015

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