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DVOŘÁK Piano Trios Nos 1-4

Dvořák’s four piano trios span his earlier musical life, part of a composing career that was rich in melodic and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2012

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Arrangements for 2 pianos/String quartet

Brahms’s Piano Quintet – one of the early masterpieces of the genre, along with Schumann’s – took a while to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2012

BIRTWISTLE Complete String Quartets

In 1991, when Sir Harrison Birtwistle wrote a brief string quartet movement for the 90th birthday of his publisher, Universal...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Op 70/2; Op 97

There has been something of a flurry of Beethoven piano trios coming my way over the past couple of months....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2012

Nordic Sounds

Do not be put off a programme by unfamiliar names. This is such a choral feast that one can only...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2012

Most Grand to Die

Success as Hans Sachs at Bayreuth has probably won James Rutherford a higher profile on the other side of the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2012

Insomnia: A Nocturnal Voyage in Song

Part of the fun in themed recitals comes from the selection and juxtaposition of the songs. William Berger’s ‘Insomnia’ is...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2012

Ay Portugal

La Compañia is one of Australia’s finest and best-known early music ensembles and Iberian music has already been in evidence...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2012

VIVALDI New Discoveries Vol II

Musicology and the recording industry are sometimes uneasy bedfellows, particularly in relation to early repertories. Dodgy reconstructions of music for...

Reviewed in issue 11/2012

VICTORIA Officium Defunctorum

Philippe Herreweghe’s conception of Victoria’s six-voice Requiem (the more famous of the two settings he composed) imparts a sense of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2012

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