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KAGEL Works for Cello

With its sensual, pear-shaped physique and knack of making even the most banal melodic utterance sound room-warming, the cello is...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 09/2011

ENESCU Piano Quartets Nos 1 & 2

George Enescu inscribed the second of these pieces to the memory of Fauré. By that time (1944) his language had...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 09/2011

BORODIN Chamber Works, Vol 1

It’s not by chance that only one of the works on this disc has a place in the permanent repertoire....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2011

BINGHAM Landscapes real and imagined

The second release from Adam Binks’s enterprising, wholly digital Resonus Classics label comprises this absorbing anthology devoted to nine chamber,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2011

BEETHOVEN String Quartets 1-3, Quintet Op 29

Surprise No 1: this is not, as you might initially assume, a period-instrument reading of Beethoven’s Rasumovskys. Surprise No 2:...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2011

An Irish Songbook

This is far from being a conventional Irish song collection, such as John McCormack might have offered in recording’s early...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2011

SCHUMANN Requiem. Der Königssohn. Nachtlied

The wrench from the twilit opening movement of the Requiem to the foursquare sequences of the “Te decet hymnus”, from...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2011

REICH Three Movements. The Desert Music

For reasons he explained in the March 2011 issue of Gramophone, Steve Reich has never been at ease with orchestras,...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 09/2011

VIVALDI Prima Donna

Although Nathalie Stutzmann has made distinguished contributions to Naïve’s Vivaldi opera project and lent a memorable Nisi Dominus to Robert...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2011

ROSSINI La cambiale di matrimonio

Rossini’s first professional opera, written for Venice’s Teatro San Moisè when he was 18, is full of dash and pizzazz....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2011

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