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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

Arias for Luigi Marchesi

The musicologist Stefano Aresi and his intrepid ensemble Stile Galante turn their microscope on the Milanese castrato Luigi Marchesini (1755-1829),...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2015

Arias for Benucci

Not usually one to go overboard about Italians, Mozart was delighted with the singing of Francesco Benucci, star of Vienna’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2015

WAGNER Das Rheingold

This is the fifth performance since 2004 you may be able to access of the first Ring opera under Simon...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2015

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