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Martha Argerich: Carte blanche

The Verbier Festival gave Martha Argerich carte blanche to invite her best friends to perform with her for one night...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2015

L'Arte dei Piffari

This anthology constructs a narrative through Italian music ranging across more than a century, from about 1580 to 1700, and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015

TELEMANN Trios and Quartets with Transverse Flute & Viola da Gamba

Who would have thought, even just a few years ago, that we would be seeing a CD whose purpose is...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2015

C SIMPSON 20 Ayres. Four Divisions

What a treat it is to hear forgotten chamber music by the English viol player Christopher Simpson, whose four-part Ayres...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2015

PÄRT Complete Works for Violin and Piano

A number of previous recordings of Arvo Pärt’s piano music have been released, including Ralph van Raat (Naxos, 12/11), Katarina...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2015

MOZART Complete Flute Quartets

‘Three small, easy and brief concertinos and a couple of quartets for the flute’ is how Mozart described the commission...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2015

MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios

What a pleasure to have not one but two recordings of the Mendelssohn piano trios plunk on to my doormat....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2015

KARG-ELERT Wagner Operas for Harmonium and Piano

Here are 12 more or less self-contained extracts from Wagner’s operas arranged for harmonium and piano duet by Sigfrid Karg...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015

HANDEL Trio Sonatas Op 5

John Walsh published Handel’s Op 5 Trio Sonatas in 1739 but Challenge’s booklet-note insinuates naively that the composer himself had...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015

HAHN Concerto provençal. Divertissement

Reynaldo Hahn is best known for his songs, his operettas and his relationship with Marcel Proust: the two were lovers...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2015

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