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Verso Venezia

Seventeenth-century Venice witnessed spectacular musical developments, from the polychoral liturgical motets of Gabrieli to the establishment of Europe’s first competing...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014

The Pianos Trio: Live in Lugano

These recordings are all of live performances given during Martha Argerich’s Lugano Festival between 2010 and 2013. The Pianos Trio...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2014

Moderato Cantabile: Komitas, Gurdjieff & Mompou

The German cellist Anja Lechner, best known to Gramophone readers as a founder member of the Rosamunde Quartet, works frequently...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2014

Nils Mönkemeyer: Barocco español

Spanish Baroque music played on the viola? Why not – especially when the viola is played by someone of the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

Geniality and impeccable craftsmanship go hand in hand when it comes to Saint-Saëns’s piano trios. As Basil Smallman remarked in...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014

RÖNTGEN String Trios Nos 5 - 8

The Lendvai Trio’s previous disc of Röntgen string trios (2/14), featuring Nos 1 4, was one of the great surprises...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014

STRAUSS; VERDI String Quartets

You will not need reminding by now that the Strauss and Verdi quartets, a familiar record-company coupling, are the only...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2014

MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios

For a long time Mendelssohn’s First Piano Trio has been much more popular than its successor but today it seems...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2014

KUHLAU Violin Sonatas

The German-born Friedrich Kuhlau settled in Copenhagen in his early twenties and enjoyed a modest amount of success there. He...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2014

FRANCK; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas

Played at its best, the Franck Violin Sonata presents itself as an almost through-composed piece, the wildly varying musical ideas...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014

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