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BRAHMS String Quartet No 3 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht, Op 4

If a quartet has any character at all it needs to be easily identifiable blind, and the Quatuor Ysaÿe have...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2013

BRAHMS; SCHUBERT; FRANCK Works for Viola and Piano

It is understandable that Tabea Zimmermann should be completely at home recording these works on the viola, for each one...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2013

PREVIN 2 Little Serenades JS BACH Partita BWV 1004 PÄRT Spiegel im Spiegel

There is a surprisingly coherent thread running through what at first looks like slightly random programming here. Its unifying idea...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2013

SCHUBERT Winterreise

My spontaneous reaction after hearing Matthew Rose’s trudge across Schubert’s snowbound landscape was ‘He’ll survive’. From the flickering will-o’-the-wisp of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2013

HAYDN Keyboard Concertos Nos 3, 4 & 11

Hard to believe it’s as long ago as spring 2000 that Leif Ove Andsnes released his benchmark disc of these...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2013

English Music for Viola and Piano

Sarah-Jane Bradley’s viola has a singing quality beautifully suited to this essentially ruminative, lyrical repertoire and Christian Wilson’s role as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2012

Project Trio: Random Roads Collection

Formed several years ago in Cleveland, based in Brooklyn and comprising Greg Pattillo on flute, Eric Stephenson on cello and...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012

Zappa

This album of orchestrated Frank Zappa arrives, as such albums tend to, with a fawning booklet-note by a classical composer...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2012

SCHUBERT String Quintet Op 163, D956

It is becoming slightly old hat to mention that the Arcanto Quartet is a musically magical combination of individually renowned...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012

LEKEU Piano Trio

Continuing their penchant for releasing discs of obscure French composers, the Trio Hochelaga have moved on from their relatively speaking...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012

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