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SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 3 WALTON String Quartet in A minor

What can I say? This is just a fantastic recording. It sounds great, the playing is erudite and courageous, and...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2022

SELAOCOE Where is Home (Hae Ke Kae)

‘Hae Ke Kae’ means ‘Where Is Home?’ in Sesotho, and while Abel Selaocoe’s ancestral home may be in South Africa,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2022

MOZART; TELEMANN 'Canons'

Mozart wrote counterpoint throughout his career, from dutiful fugues while learning his craft to worthy stile antico polyphony in his...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

HEMSI Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble)

Chandos’s ‘Music in Exile’ series featuring the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble continues with this overview of Alberto Hemsi (1898-1975). Of Sephardic...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2022

DVORÁK American Quartet. 8 Waltzes

It’d be a grey day indeed that couldn’t be brightened by Dvořák’s chamber music, and I don’t think it was...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2022

BRITTEN; HAGEN; STRAUSS (Ensemble Allegria)

Although they might have gone under the radar in the UK, Ensemble Allegria have established a status way beyond their...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2022

BEETHOVEN; FRANCK; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Renaud Capuçon)

I’m not sure whether it’s significant that all three works are in A major/minor, but this concert from last Easter’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

Beethoven for Three: Symphony No 6 'Pastorale'

I was bowled over by Kavakos, Ma and Ax’s recent recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as arranged by Colin Matthews...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

JS BACH Flute Sonatas (Aysha Wills)

Why Bach? This is what young Canadian flautist Aysha Wills asked herself when deciding what to play for this, her...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2022

ADAMS Sila: The Breath of the World

The last piece by John Luther Adams that came my way for review was his fourth string quartet, Everything That...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022

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