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BRAHMS; LISZT; SCHOENBERG Works for Piano Trio

This disc holds compressed time: that unrepeatable period of a decade or two in German culture in which the good...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2012

BLISS; BRITTEN String Quartets

Founded in 2003, the Barbirolli Quartet brings together four string players trained at the Royal Northern College of Music in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2012

BERKELEY Chamber Works for Wind, Strings & Piano

Two world-premiere recordings top and tail this useful programme of chamber works by Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-89). The Trio for...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2012

BENDA Violin Sonatas

The Bohemian composer Franz Benda (1709-86) started his musical career as a boy soprano in the Benedictine church of St...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 7

As Beethoven did in the Fourth Piano Concerto four years earlier, so he does in Op 97; the pianist sets...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2012

JS BACH Guitar Concertos

Xuefei Yang becomes the latest guitarist to adapt the music of Bach for her instrument. The composer’s own lute transcriptions...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue:

JC BACH A Music Party

These unfailingly excellent performances of attractive chamber works provide plenty of evidence to explain why the youngest child of the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2012

ACHRON Complete Suites for Violin & Piano

Shaham and Erez recorded most of the short pieces in this programme in 1996; they were then issued on a...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 05/2012

Renée Fleming: Poèmes

The outstanding item in this French collection is the first recording of Dutilleux’s Le temps l’horloge. The short cycle of...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2012

Une fête Baroque

Emmanuelle Haïm, the director of Le Concert d’Astrée, has planned this anthology to celebrate the group’s 10th anninversary, recorded at...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2012

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