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English Music for Oboe

This disc offers a splendid celebration of the artistry of the oboist Sarah Francis. All but one of the works...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2015

BEETHOVEN Quintet Op 16 POULENC Sextet

This is a most attractive collection of performances from this excellent chamber group. It opens with Poulenc’s many-faceted Sextet for...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2015

SCHUMANN Märchenbilder. Fantasiestücke

By the end of this programme of short works – most of which have little more than five-minute spans of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015

SCHUBERT Octet. Quartettsatz

It’s good to have a reading of Schubert’s Octet which explores it via the pungency of period instruments. The very...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015

RUEHR Chamber Music

Increasingly well represented on disc, Boston-based Elena Ruehr (b1963) has maintained a steady chamber output – of which this selection...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes RACHMANINOV Romances

The prize-winning Russian cellist Boris Andrianov here offers a programme of Russian music in transcriptions for cello and piano. Shostakovich’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2015

PENDERECKI Chamber Works

Most of the works on this disc are relatively recent but it begins with the highly enjoyable Three Miniatures for...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Divertimenti

Mozart informed his father that he had composed the Serenade K375 ‘rather carefully’ to impress Herr von Strack, a Viennese...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015

MENDELSSOHN Piano Quartets

Roberto Prosseda has already been rattling his way through Mendelssohn’s piano music for Italian Decca, and here he is joined...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015

MATTHEWS Complete String Quartets Vol 3

David Matthews’s purposeful, imaginative and inventive music has rightly gained its own following, which the Kreutzer Quartet’s excellent cycle of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2015

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