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BRAHMS Piano Quartets Nos 2 & 3

To learn that a particular recording is the last that an artist had made is to encourage speculation about possible...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Cello and Piano, Vol 1 (Gabriel Schwabe)

An effective litmus test when reviewing a recent recording of familiar repertoire is whether or not your ear automatically sidesteps...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

Paris est une fête

This disc of French music would make a lovely, balanced concert programme: two concertante works for violin, an orchestral lollipop...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2024

Dalia's Mixtape

Those old enough to remember the 1970s and ’80s will no doubt be familiar with the idea of the mixtape,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2024

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Mäkelä)

What we have here is a telling snapshot of Shostakovich’s symphonic journey with all its socio-political implications. With the Fourth...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2024

REINECKE Symphony No 2. Overtures (Raudales)

A student of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt, Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) was a prominent fixture in Leipzig musical life for four...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 6 (Welser-Möst)

Shostakovich may or may not have been kidding when he composed his non- (or is it anti-?) heroic Ninth Symphony...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2024

MULVEY The Tyndall Effect

No one familiar with Gráinne Mulvey (b1966) would accuse her of taking the path of least resistance. Here, the legacy...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2024

LINDBERG Viola Concerto. Absence. Serenades

Now in his 60s, Magnus Lindberg is a prolific and resourceful contributor to spectral music, where ‘spectral’ has little or...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2024

HOLST 'Discovering Imogen'

This very welcome album provides a valuable overview of Imogen Holst’s music across a period of 30 years between her...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW2024

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