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LALO; MAGNARD ; RAVEL Cello Sontatas

Radutiu and Rundberg make a formidable duo, equally comfortable in the very different environments of these three works. Lalo’s 1856...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2012

KESZLER Catching Net

‘Catching Net’ is a huge dirty bomb of a double album that’s going to detonate right under everyone’s cosy assumptions...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2012

GOEBBELS Stifters Dinge

Heiner Goebbels’s title might be recondite, though as a ‘performative installation’, first staged in Luxembourg in 2007, Stifters Dinge preaches...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2012

DEBUSSY String Quartet, Op 10 RAVEL String Quartet

The La Dolce Volta label sets its sights high. Each disc, it says, ‘is conceived in a limited edition as...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012

DEBUSSY Chamber Music with Winds

Though Debussy was known to transcribe his own works in piano reductions ranging from Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012

T DAVIES Spine

Tansy Davies came into her own on disc with ‘Troubairitz’ (7/11) and this new release rounds out her output in...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012

Morava: String Quartets

The absorption of folk tunes into the high-art music of most composers trying to assert their national identity is always...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 1-10

Although written over a fairly condensed stretch of time (they don’t cover his whole career but rather the prolific, pre-deafness...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH Organ Trio Sonatas BWV525-530

It seems surprising that so many Baroque chamber groups overlook the potential for transforming the six ‘trio sonatas’ for organ...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

Now this is something very special, and it marks an exciting debut for Leif Ove Andsnes on Sony after his...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012

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