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LEFRANÇOIS Balnéaire: Chamber Music

It would be hard and probably undesirable to pin any sort of label on the music of Laurent Lefrançois, the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015

WOLF; GRIEG; JANÁČEK String Quartets

These young players based in New York boast a formidable range of accomplishments: perfect chording, beautifully matched tone, precise technical...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015

GRAUPNER Trio Sonatas

The 1990s fashion for dispensing as many recordings as possible of ‘newly discovered’ Baroque music did not always guarantee the...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2015

FUENTES Space Factory III-VI

Arturo Fuentes is a Mexican composer born in 1975 currently living in Austria, whose music has attracted sufficient attention to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015

DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintets

Two composers in particular spring out as influences on these two very different quintets: Schumann in Op 1, most specifically...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015

Journey to Aldeburgh: Young Britten

It might have seemed that there could not be any more early works by Britten waiting to be discovered but...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2015

BRAHMS Piano Trios

A feature of this issue is the inclusion of both versions of the Op 8 Trio – the original of...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3

These impressive performances come into direct competition with the set released last year by Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang. Recorded...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 7 - 11

It isn’t difficult to feel confident as the Cypress Quartet launch into the first movement of Op 59 No 1....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015

The Usher Hall Organ Vol 2

Ten years on from his first recording for Delphian of the (then) newly restored Norman and Beard in the Usher...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2015

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