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Review of IVES Concord Sonata (Donald Berman)

IVES Concord Sonata (Donald Berman)

As the longtime general editor of Charles Ives’s piano works for the Ives Society’s critical edition, it stands to reason...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

Review of Karim Said plays Beethoven, Mozart, Schoenberg, Webern

Karim Said plays Beethoven, Mozart, Schoenberg, Webern

As in his previous Rubicon release (4/19), Karim Said again explores connections between teachers and disciples, with Mozart and Beethoven...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

Review of Peter Donohoe plays Granados & Albéniz

Peter Donohoe plays Granados & Albéniz

Decades of gestation and seasoning inform Peter Donohoe’s excellently engineered readings of Albéniz’s Iberia Books 1 and 2 and the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

Review of Nexus: New Works for Trumpet and Piano

Nexus: New Works for Trumpet and Piano

Had Charles Darwin used musical instruments to back up his theory of evolution, he may well have looked to the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024

Review of The Naming of Birds: British Wind Quintets

The Naming of Birds: British Wind Quintets

The concept behind this intriguing, delightfully played programme is the development of the British wind quintet decade by decade from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Review of The Mandolin in London

The Mandolin in London

After a wide-ranging exploration, over a number of consistently fascinating releases, of the baroque mandolin in Italy (with a brief...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024

Review of Home: American String Quartets

Home: American String Quartets

The Miró Quartet’s new album, ‘Home’, offers a discourse on the themes thrown up by the title: a nation’s people...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024

Review of Avec elles: Arrieu, Bonis, Borel, Chaminade, Debussy, Poulenc

Avec elles: Arrieu, Bonis, Borel, Chaminade, Debussy, Poulenc

The French have long been in an intimate relationship with the flute. Think of that siren call languorously opening Debussy’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024

Review of WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 4 (Arcadia Quartet)

WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 4 (Arcadia Quartet)

In this fourth instalment of Weinberg string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet tellingly juxtapose one of his greatest works with two...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024

Review of SORABJI Vocal and Chamber Works

SORABJI Vocal and Chamber Works

His output may be dominated by large-scale works for piano but Kaikhosru Sorabji wrote vocal and chamber pieces of relative...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024


 

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