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TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No 1. Album for the Young

The Kuss Quartet’s new record, ‘Thème russe’, consists mostly of a number of appetising morsels, not so much a meal...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2012

HOWELLS Rhapsodic Quintet CRAS Quintet

Seekers after the unusual will almost certainly light on the Quintet by Jean Émile Paul Cras (1879-1932), a composer who...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2012

SIVORI Violin and Piano Works

Camillo Sivori (1815-94) was celebrated as Paganini’s only pupil; in fact, the period of tuition was quite short and Sivori...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2012

SCHUMANN Piano Quartet Op 47. Piano Quintet Op 44

High hopes always accompany the appearance of new recordings from these artists: high hopes that, on this occasion, are not...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2012

SCHUBERT Piano Trios - D28; D898; D929

There’s a real sense of discovery about the playing of Trio Jean Paul – no mean feat given that this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012

MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time ZEMLINSKY Trio Op 3

Zemlinsky’s Trio for clarinet, cello and piano and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time are worlds apart in musical...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2012

KAGEL Works for Flute

In Das Konzert (2001-02), Mauricio Kagel revisited the idea of the Baroque concerto grosso with a work for flute and...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2012

HAYDN String Quartet, Op 51 'Seven Last Words'

It’s an entrancing work in orchestral and choral guise. But whether all the movements in The Seven Last Words lend...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2012

HARTY String Quartets. Piano Quintet

Sir Hamilton Harty is best remembered nowadays as chief conductor of the Hallé in the inter-war years, a vintage period...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2012

DEBUSSY En blanc et noir. MESSIAEN Visions de l'Amen

It was an inspired idea in 2010 for Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal to pair these two major 20th-century French...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2012

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