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An American Rhapsody

Following a number of releases (including the 2018 cross-genre anthology ‘Hidden Gems’ and Hans Abrahamsen’s Walden – Winter & Winter,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023

Seicento Stravagante: Music for Cornetto & Keyboard

Seicento Stravagante are a cornetto and keyboard duo, formed in 2018 and here making their recording debut in core repertoire...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2023

WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 3 (Arcadia Quartet)

The Arcadia Quartet continue their cycle of string quartets by Mieczysław Weinberg (previous volumes were reviewed in 3/21 and 5/22)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023

TURNAGE Winter's Edge

No doubt many of us still think of Mark-Anthony Turnage and his music as incorrigibly urban, yet it is more...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2023

LIGETI Metamorphosis (Quatuor Diotima)

When listening to Ligeti’s pre-Cologne music – which is, of course, not the music he became famous for – part...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2023

KNOX Open Spaces

With his background as a viola player in Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Arditti Quartet, together with such enterprising collections as...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 42, 77. Seven Last Words

The London Haydn Quartet reaches the end of its period-instrument Hyperion Haydn cycle: well, almost – they still have to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2023

Bracing Change 2

Three string quartets by three composers performed by three different groups. In this sense, ‘Bracing Change 2’ is no different...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2023

GASSMANN Oboe Quartets and Quintets GYROWETZ Flute Quartets

’Twas on a Monday morning the gasman came to call’, sang Flanders & Swann. Many years ago, I chose Florian...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2023

JS BACH Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (Adrian Butterfield)

Harpsichordist Silas Wollston opens the Sonata in B minor, BWV1014, with particular evocation (a make or break moment, really, when...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023

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