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GLASS Partita for Solo Violin

Tim Fain’s combination of power, precision and deeply expressive playing has made his recordings almost as ubiquitous as Philip Glass’s...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2015

CHAMINADE Piano Sonata and Etudes

Cécile Chaminade had two things going against her as a composer. The first was that she was a woman in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 1, 8 & 14

However many incarnations it goes through, the Borodin Quartet brand somehow never loses its cachet, despite the fact that, in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2015

SCHUBERT String Quintet

You might well assume that the name ‘Kuijken’ would mean this is a period-instrument account of Schubert’s mighty Quintet. But...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015

REICH Music for 18 Musicians

As recently as the mid 1990s it seemed inconceivable that Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians would be performed and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2015

LISZT Works for Two Pianos

Wikipedia describes the Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov as ‘a Bulgarian piano duo, considered both by the world music press...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

KUHLAU Piano Quartets 1 & 2

Friedrich Daniel Rudolph Kuhlau (1786-1832): a good subject for a pub quiz. Can you name a one-eyed composer? Who, besides...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

HUMMEL Piano Trios Nos 1, 4 & 5

If your musical tastes err towards the sunny, optimistic and playful rather than the heavyweight, gloomy and probing, let me...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

GRIEG; HOUGH; MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas

Steven Isserlis is a past master when it comes to matching his pianists to repertoire: Robert Levin in Beethoven, Dénes...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015

ERNST The Virtuoso Violin

It remains puzzling why so comparatively few big-name fiddle players include any Ernst in their repertoire. This latest addition to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

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