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DOWLAND Lachrimae (Jadran Duncumb)

All the playing here is on an international level: beautifully balanced, marvellously flexible in phrasing and tempo, with much well-judged...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Fantasiestücke DVOŘÁK String Quartet Op 106

The Takács Quartet’s reputation precedes them. Gramophone Award-winners, resident at London’s Southbank Centre, the University of Colorado Boulder and now...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 09/2023

BRAHMS; REGER Clarinet Quintets

Clarinet quintets by Brahms and Reger make an obvious coupling that should have been taken up more widely but which...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2023

JS BACH The Art of Fugue (Casals Quartet)

How string quartets engage with the musical challenges and opportunities of performing ‘old’ four-part music – whether Purcell’s Fantasias or...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2023

Krzysztof Meisinger: Mystique

I almost wish that Krzysztof Meisinger’s improvised Invocazione introducing Domeniconi’s popular Koyunbaba suite had opened his recital, so mysterious and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2023

Après un rêve - Belle Époque: Nights at the Piano (Emmanuel Despax)

This is a heartfelt tribute to the pianist’s late poet grandfather, whose fondness for the French belle époque repertoire is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

Yuja Wang - The Verbier Festival Debut Recital 2008

Yuja Wang first came to international attention in 2007 when she stood in for Martha Argerich in Boston. A few...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Daniel Matejča; Solveig Steinthorsdottir)

Although Hilary Hahn’s DG disc devoted to Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Recording of the Month in the August...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023

MOZART Piano Recital (Su Yeon Kim)

Listening to the 2016 Queen Elisabeth Competition online, I chanced upon a terrific account of Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata in progress,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2023

LISZT Transcendental Studies (Yunchan Lim)

This is, unquestionably, a great piano recording. In this young pianist’s hands you will hear one of the finest-ever performances...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

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