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BEETHOVEN; BERWALD Septets

The early 19th century couldn’t get enough of Beethoven’s Septet, to the composer’s mounting irritation (‘too much sentimentality and too...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2023

BAUMBUSCH Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet

The sounds of gamelan instruments were first heard in the US at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and it’s close...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2023

Prism V - Beethoven, Webern, Bach

You need your wits about you and the volume up to catch the head-motif opening Webern’s String Quartet of 1905,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2023

An Englishman Abroad

Who is this Englishman? Well, it’s Nicola Matteis – not the Italian violinist-composer we usually hear but rather his son...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2023

WEILL Symphonies Nos 1 & 2. Der Silbersee (Gruber)

Who was it, again, who said that all music was either fundamentally symphonic or fundamentally balletic? In any case, there...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2023

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 49th Parallel (Yates)

Vaughan Williams came late to film composing. By 1940, when he started on his first such score, for 49th Parallel,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

SKALKOTTAS Two Concertos

Arguably, both recordings here are firsts, as although Skalkottas’s Violin Concerto (1937 38) has appeared on CD before, this is...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

SAWYERS Concertos (Woods)

The Double Concerto for violin and cello is the second work that Philip Sawyers has composed for the prodigiously gifted...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

NERI Sonate da sonarsi con varij stromenti

Massimiliano Neri cuts an interesting figure among the ranks of 16th-century Venetian composers. He was born around 1620 to a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2023

MOZART Ecstasy & Abyss

‘You gotta get a gimmick’, Louise is advised in Gypsy. In opera-directing circles, it’s sometimes disparagingly called a Konzept. The...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2023

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