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SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 1-4

In a market not short of good accounts of Shostakovich’s string quartets, the idea of placing them alongside other representative...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2012

SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 13 & 14

It is unusual to see a pairing of what are the two most important string quartets of Schubert, and even...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2012

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Op. 12 & 13

Pedants who know that Mendelssohn’s Second Quartet was written before his First will love the presentation of this disc as...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2012

HUMPERDINCK String Quartets & Piano Quintet

This well-filled disc contains something like half of Humperdinck’s music for string quartet and piano quintet, most of which he...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2012

HALVORSEN Chamber Music

Thanks to Chandos, four discs of Halvorsen’s orchestral music have recently appeared, with one to follow. Johan Halvorsen, born in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2012

FINZI Romance. By Footpath and Stile

Although the essence of Finzi’s instrumental sound lies in the lush textures of the string orchestra – as symbolised by...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2012

ENESCU Piano Trios

It was not until 1965 that Hilda Jerea uncovered the not-quite-complete manuscript of Enescu’s A minor Piano Trio, composed in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2012

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Trios Vol 1

Hot on the heels of the Wanderer’s complete set of trios comes the first volume from the Gould Trio, captured...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2012

BUXTEHUDE Trio Sonatas Op 2

The latest addition to Ton Koopman’s monumental Buxtehude recording project is the second of two collections of trio sonatas, published...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 08/2012

GRIEG String Quartet, Op 27 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet, Op 115

It would be hard to imagine a finer version of the sadly neglected Grieg Quartet, the only one he completed....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2012

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