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JS BACH Preludes, Inventions & Sinfonias (Mahan Esfahani)

Echoes of childhood piano lessons have probably made the two-part Inventions and three-part Sinfonias among the least sexy areas of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2024

Souvenirs: Popular Violin Recital Pieces (Johan Dalene)

A window on the past facilitated by two brilliant young players. The prodigy violinist Johan Dalene (born August 2000) claims...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

Impressions parisiennes (Quatuor Van Kuijk)

Here’s an ingenious idea – a French string quartet album containing only one original work. The usual suspects are present...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2024

Eastern Reflections: Bartók, Lutosławski, Weinberg, Ligeti (Jonathan Leibovitz)

The works presented on this album were composed in Eastern (many there would now prefer the term Central) Europe between...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: AW2024

SCHUBERT; SHOSTAKOVICH Viola Sonatas (Andreas Willwohl)

It seems that Schubert has become a go-to composer when it comes to contrasting classical-romantic sublimity with more challenging, if...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

HOLMBOE String Quartets Vol 3

Having covered already Holmboe’s first and last published thoughts on the string quartet genre (omitting the 10 or so fragmentary...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2024

HINDEMITH Viola Sonatas (Maria Shetty)

As is made clear with her extensive annotations, Maria Shetty did not undertake performance of Hindemith’s sonatas for viola lightly,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

ELIAS Music for Strings

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the finest album of contemporary...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2024

CASTALDI; PELLEGRINI Capricci

Active for some time in the continuo and small ensemble fields, French lutenist and baroque guitarist Albane Imbs can’t seem...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW2024

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Ostrovsky; Suwanai)

Here are two quite distinct interpretative visions of Brahms’s violin sonatas. Ostrovsky and Morozova are a thoughtful duo who like...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

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