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ORNSTEIN Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 2

Having given us a solo Ornstein disc back in 2002 (10/02), Marc-André Hamelin here offers the hypertrophic Piano Quintet. Composed...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2015

MATTEIS Most Ravishing Things

Thanks to the admiring accounts of the likes of John Evelyn and Roger North, we know a fair bit about...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015

HAYDN Piano Trios

Recorded the better part of 10 years ago, here’s a disc of four Haydn piano trios, none of them perhaps...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2015

HANDEL; HAYM Trio Sonatas

Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729) is not a totally obscure figure. Although this release may well be the first to add...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015

British Clarinet Quintets

Best known as the author of several song cycles, hence the soubriquet of ‘the English Schumann’, Arthur Somervell was nevertheless...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW2015

BEETHOVEN Complete String Trios

A new set of Beethoven’s string trios is always a welcome event, and this one, by a group named after...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2015

BACH; SCARLATTI; HANDEL Gamba Sonatas

None of these pieces was written for cello and harpsichord, and at no stage does that matter one bit. Bach’s...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015

Mynstrelles with Straunge Sounds

The Rose Consort of Viols’ first collaboration with mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson, the Awards-nominated ‘Adoramus te’ (Deux-Elles, A/14), was a domestic...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2015

Michaela Schuster: Morgen!

The German mezzo Michaela Schuster is best known as an operatic animal, with a repertoire that includes big-hitting Wagner and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2015

The Leiden Choirbooks Vol 6

The traversal of an idiosyncratic corner of 16th-century polyphony comes to an end with this double-CD, which focuses on the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2015

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