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SMETANA; JANÁČEK String Quartets

There is much to admire here from the excellent Jerusalem Quartet. In Smetana’s First Quartet there is the fine opening...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 03/2014

ISASI String Quartets Nos 3 & 4

The Basque composer Andrés Isasi (1890-1940) started writing eight string quartets. Only four, perhaps five, were finished, four (Nos 2...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2014

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 76/4; 50/6; 33/3

Haydn naturally forms the bedrock of any quartet’s repertoire. The only problem is when it comes to making selections for...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2014

FAURÉ Duos & Trios with Piano

This fourth volume of the gradually evolving Fauré series from Eric Le Sage et al could have been something of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2014

DVOŘÁK; SMETANA Piano Trios

These young musicians’ performances show that the centuries-old Czech tradition of superb instrumental playing is still flourishing. I particularly enjoyed...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2014

FRANCK. GRIEG Violin Sonatas

It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new voice, especially one as talented as Callum Smart. Just 17 at the...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2014

BRAHMS Clarinet Sonatas GADE Fantasy Pieces

There is a strong sense of the Classical sonata developing slowly but surely into the egaliatarian duo sonata of the...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2014

BANTOCK; SCOTT; COKE Sonatas for Violin and Piano

The works on this disc have been shrewdly chosen. Granville Bantock wrote his Third Violin Sonata in 1940, when he...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2014

BELLINI La Sonnambula

Knocking Bellini’s sleepwalking girl of 1831 still seems de rigueur. The Metropolitan Opera broadcast of 2009 with Natalie Dessay and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2014

Sacred Spirit of Russia

If there is a weak spot for Britain’s excellent and varied choral ensembles it’s in Russian repertoire. Tenebrae’s superb recording...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2014

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