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RAGNARSSON Vocal and Chamber Works

Hjálmar Helgi Ragnarsson is one of the leading Icelandic composers of the middle generation, his first compositions dating from the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

PIERNÉ Piano Quintet VIERNE String Quartet

Brahms, Dvořák, Fauré, Franck, Schubert, Schumann…and perhaps Taneyev. The list of indisputably great Romantic piano quintets may be a shortish...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014

PICKARD String Quartets Nos 1 & 5

Here’s further proof that John Pickard (b1962) is one of the most edifying and accomplished composers around. Toccata Classics gives...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2014

LEIFS Quartets Nos 1 - 3

When the Yggsdrasil Quartet’s pioneering disc of Jón Leifs’s three string quartets was released by BIS in 1995, I gave...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

B LANG Monadologie XII

Bernhard Lang’s title might lead you to think classic-period modernism but Monadologie XII turns out to be a composer’s re...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2014

KREISLER Music for Violin

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), one of the most beloved musicians of the last century, is sui generis. In an 80th-birthday tribute...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014

HINDEMITH Viola Sonatas

Most viola players separate Hindemith’s sonatas with piano on disc from the unaccompanied works. Even Kim Kashkashian, whose ECM twofer...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

FAURÉ Piano Trio Op 120 SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No 2

It’s a brave move by the Neave Trio to couple two of the most searing trios in the repertoire. Searing...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014

SUK; DVOŘÁK; SMETANA Piano Trios

Did you know that Josef Suk composed a habanera? Well, neither did I and, in all probability, neither did he....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue:

BRAHMS String Quartet No 2. Clarinet Quintet

Few composers were more fiercely self-critical than Brahms. His habit of destroying works he viewed as unworthy remained with him...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014

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