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REED String Quartets Nos 4 & 5 (Cirrus Quartet)

This is not the first modern recording dedicated to ‘Elgar’s violinist’, WH (‘Billy’) Reed: Dutton issued a collection of violin-and-piano...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2023

RACHMANINOV Piano Trios. Cello Sonata

This trio of Russian musicians certainly have this music flowing through their veins, but is that enough in a crowded...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023

MOZART The Prussian Quartets (Chiaroscuro Quartet)

It’s incredible to think that Mozart’s three ‘Prussian’ Quartets – his final statements in the genre, written for amateur cellist...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2023

MOZART; SCHUMANN; BRUCH; STRAVINSKY Clarinet Trios

What a little miracle Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio (1786) is: just under 20 minutes of his finest music for his three...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

MARAIS Folies d'Espagne. La Rêveuse

I adore this recording. Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud bring us the music of Marin Marais – on cello and...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2023

LOURIÉ Chamber and Instrumental Music, Vol 1: Works with Wind Instruments

Arthur Lourié (1891-1966) is an endlessly fascinating composer. Like Stravinsky, whose friend (and in some ways mentor) he was, his...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2023

DUTILLEUX; HOUGH; RAVEL String Quartets (Takács Quartet)

Shostakovich aside, few post-war string quartets can have made more of an impact on record than Dutilleux’s Ainsi le nuit....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2023

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 (Leonard Elschenbroich)

‘Technological process in some cases has a fruit-like cycle’, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich writes in the booklet note, ‘and we found...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2023

Les nuits de Paris

Imagine uprooting the traditional New Year’s Day concert from Vienna’s Musikverein and transporting it to the Opéra-Comique in Paris. And...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2023

B A ZIMMERMANN 'Recomposed'

Wergo’s long-term Bernd Alois Zimmermann Edition now continues with this ambitious ‘Recomposed’ project, placing six of his own works within...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

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