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BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

The second volume of John Axelrod’s ‘Brahms Beloved’ series again has Brahms’s orchestral monuments alongside Clara Schumann’s genteel songs that...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014

Serenissima: Music from Renaissance Europe

This recording was inspired by the Rose Consort’s recent acquisition of a ‘chest’ of six viols (treble, two tenor, two...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014

Perla Barocca

It would be hard to imagine a more enticing introduction to the delights of 17th-century Italian violin music. The composers...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014

FAURÉ Lydia's Vocalises

During 1906 Fauré composed vocalises for sight-singing tests at the Paris Conservatoire, where singing of art-song had just been made...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2014

FRANCK Cello Sonata SAINT-SAËNS Cello Sonata No 2

Julian Steckel and Paul Rivinius’s 2011 release of cello-piano works by Fauré, Poulenc, Debussy and Boulanger was a vividly programmed...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2014

American Chamber Music

Most of this music is well represented on CD but the rarity is Bernstein’s early Piano Trio. He wrote it...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2014

Alexei Ogrintchouk: A 20th Century Recital

All five works here are overshadowed by war. Hindemith’s Sonata, although it opens confidently, includes a second movement which has...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2014

SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14 JANÁČEK String Quartet No 1

There seems little to link Schubert’s quartet with Janáček’s except responses to death. In the Schubert, the players shadow the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2014

HOLBORN The Fruit of Love

Antony Holborne’s Pavans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs both Grave, and Light was published in 1599. Described as being...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014

HODGKINSON Onsets

Like many rock musicians who managed to piggyback their radical ideals off a 1970s music industry still prepared to sign...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2014

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