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HAYDN String Quartet Op 76 No 2 SCHUBERT String Quartet D810, 'Death and the Maiden'

There is an exciting combination of influences in this first recording of the all-female Dutch quartet, although the fact that...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2013

GODOWSKY 12 Impressions. Avowal. Waltz Poems Nos 1 & 2

Like Chopin, every single work by Godowsky features the piano. Unlike Chopin, Godowsky wrote nothing for piano and orchestra, nor...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2013

GHEDINI Complete Music for Violin and Piano

Following up his two-volume survey for Naxos of Ghedini’s complete piano music, Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi and his duo partner Emy...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2013

Pascal & Ami Rogé play Debussy & Ravel

On a disc to delight even the most blasé Francophile, the husband-and-wife team of Pascal and Ami Rogé give us...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013

BLOCH Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2

The young French violinist Elsa Grether here gives the most passionate performances of three of Ernest Bloch’s works most deeply...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2013

Music in Exile: Chamber Music by Paul Ben-Haim

The first work you’ll hear on this absorbing CD was composed by a 24-year-old who worked as an assistant conductor...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2013

BERG; BARTÓk; SCHNITTKE String Quartets No 3

A trio of characterful and accomplished 20th-century string quartets make a satisfyingly substantial programme of a kind now rare on...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2013

Fauré; Debussy; Ravel String Quartets

Among the many breathtaking moments on the Ebène Quartet’s CD, there is one in particular that keeps calling one back....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/08

Mendelssohn Complete Symphonies; Overtures

It is in the choral Second Symphony that the advantage of the wide-ranging digital sound comes out most strikingly, in...

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MOZART String Quartets Nos 4, 17 & 22

“Rather prim and formal throughout, and presents little variety in its part-writing” – a verdict on K157 from Thomas F...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2011

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