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FUJIKURA Secret Forest

NMC’s Debut Discs series continues with a timely profile of Dai Fujikura – Osaka-born and London-based, whose music is an...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2012

ENESCU Violin Music

As a composer-violinist Enescu didn’t provide a large part of his own concert repertoire, as his 19th-century predecessors had done....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2012

DVOŘÁK String Quartet No 13. Cypresses. Waltzes

While not quite matching the dynamism and idiomatic accents of the Pavel Haas Quartet, the Cecilia String Quartet offer a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2012

DELIUS; GRIEG Complete Works for Cello & Piano

Raphael Wallfisch has recorded Delius’s Cello Sonata before on Chandos and, if you prefer major couplings such as Bax, Bridge,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012

DEBUSSY; FAURÉ; BRIDGE; BRITTEN: Works for Cello and Piano

Two young British artists, both winners of international prizes, the cellist Philip Higham and the pianist Simon Lane, form an...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012

BRAHMS Quintets Opp 34 & 115

One of the many notable things about the Tokyo Quartet is that they play the ‘Paganini’ quartet of instruments by...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2012

Music from the Eton Choirbook

It is great to have a new recording from the Eton Choirbook, that astonishing collection of English church music from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW/2012

Mezzo Moon: Lieder and Songs

Pia Heise has an attractive voice and sings with appealing candour. Roger Vignoles is an attentive, vastly experienced accompanist. Yet...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW/2012

The Legacy of Mahler

Much is made of Virpi Räisänen’s dual career path. Though an accomplished violinist, she is now making her name as...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2012

Byrd & the Tudor Revival

The title may be ‘Haec dies: Byrd and the Tudor Revival’: the Haec dies on this excellent disc is not...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW/2012

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