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ZEMLINSKY String Quartets Nos 2 & 4

Zemlinsky is one of those composers of not quite the first rank whose reputation continues to be overshadowed by his...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 01/2012

SCHWARZ Darwin's Dream

Schwartz’s Second String Quartet is a tribute to the sculptor Louise Nevelson and to Aaron Copland. He has paired them...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 01/2012

REYNOLDS Sanctuary

For those of us with the polyrhythmic landfall of free jazz drummers like Andrew Cyrille and Sunny Murray – the...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2012

HOLMBOE Chamber Music Vol 1

After its fine string quartets cycle with the Kontra Quartet, Dacapo is evidently turning its attention to the substantial body...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2012

HAYDN Piano Trios

‘Piano Trios – 1’ says the inlay card, and it’s only to be hoped that the Kungsbacka Trio’s survey of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2012

DVOŘÁK Love Songs Op 83. Cypresses. Piano Quintet

A great programming idea, this – couching the predominantly lyrical A major Piano Quintet in the context of love songs,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2012

SVENDSEN Orchestral Works Vol 1

Although Johan Svendsen’s name remains familiar enough as one of the clutch of Norwegian composers one rung down from Grieg...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2012

RIISAGER The Symphonic Edition, Vol 1

This first volume of Dacapo’s Riisager Symphonic Edition contains works composed in his twenties and early thirties, which is to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2012

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3

The Caprice bohémien, linked emotionally and chronologically to Rachmaninov’s student opera Aleko, does not by any means play itself. As...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2012

McCARTNEY Ocean's Kingdom

Ocean’s Kingdom was commissioned by New York City Ballet and premiered in New York in September 2011. The scenario, featuring...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 01/2012

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