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DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No 3 SMETANA Piano Trio Op 15 SUK Elegy

Smetana’s G minor Trio has one of the grandest openings in the entire piano trio repertoire, its Lisztian axis much...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014

DANZI Music for Piano and Winds Vol 1

Ensemble F2’s project, prepared last year for Finchcocks Musical Museum in Kent, explores the chamber music of Franz Danzi (1763-1826)....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue:

CORELLI Concerti Grossi Op 6

This double set completes the Avison Ensemble’s survey of Corelli’s published opuses. Both of these Roman publications contain 12 trio...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014

PIZZETTI; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Violin Sonatas

The Italy of the 1920s was not a good place to be. Luckily, though, jazz was starting to enjoy some...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014

CAMPBELL Things You Already Know

'Personal music demands personal music tools,’ writes the American composer Chris Campbell as he outlines how his new album pulls...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2014

BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet. Clarinet Trio

Contradictions rule. Brahms’s biographer Florence May (1905) says of the Clarinet Quintet: ‘The tone of gentle loving regret that prevails...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord

Repeated listening to Bach’s Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord deepens one’s sense of their formal variety within a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014

ARRIAGA Complete String Quartets

Not knowing anything about this repertoire or the personality behind it, one’s initial reaction is a unique convergence of musical...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014

WALTON Symphony No 1. Violin Concerto

Edward Gardner presides over blisteringly eloquent and splendidly unbuttoned accounts of both these Walton masterworks, the First Symphony’s vehement opening...

Reviewed in issue 07/2014

JS BACH Orchestral Suites and Concertos

Borrowing, adapting, transcribing: Bach was a master at this game. So why would he, who borrowed from others and from...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014

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