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Play: Works for cello and piano

The 20-year-old French cellist Edgar Moreau, silver medallist at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, launches his recording career with...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014

POPPER Complete Suites for Cello

David Popper (1843-1913) was a Bohemian cellist whose work as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher was lauded all over...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014

MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Mendelssohn’s music for cello and piano runs the full gamut, from simple lyrical pieces to large-scale Beethovenian sonata structures. This...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012

MARTELLI String Quartets Nos 1&2

Anyone familiar with the repertory played by string quartets at weddings will have heard the clever and idiomatic popular song...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012

LOCKE The Broken Consort Part 1

The Wayward Sisters are an edgy new American ensemble specialising in Baroque music. Sisters in spirit maybe – their trusty...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014

KAGEL Piano Trios Nos 1-3

First off, it’s worth saluting this young trio for making its CD debut with music as non-commercial as this. The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2014

IYER Mutations

Vijay Iyer is the newly installed Franklin D and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard. His background is...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 76 No 1; 50 No 1 & 77 No 1

As recently as the March issue I was pondering the thought processes involved in choosing a 60-plus-minute recital of Haydn’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2014

GAUBERT Works for Violin, Cello

The booklet-note by no means downplays the promise of this disc. ‘One will discover with stupefaction an authentic masterpiece,’ it...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014

FELDMAN For Philip Guston

If you consider Morton Feldman to be a challenging listen then take it from me, you don’t know the half...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2014

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