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Cello Concertos From Northern Germany (Gulrim Cho)

Ensemble Diderot do it again, and this time cello lovers can rejoice. Four cello concertos by four composers – only...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2022

TANGUY 'In a Dream'

While ‘spectral minimalism’ may not accurately capture Éric Tanguy’s music (the composer himself has stated that he does not subscribe...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2022

RIES Piano Trio. Sextets (The Nash Ensemble)

My second Ferdinand this month (see page 52), and another figure best known for his association with others. The most...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022

MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Åstrand; Teyssier; Salo; Thomsen)

With some three dozen versions currently available, Quatuor pour la fin du temps is the most recorded of Messiaen’s larger...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2022

HOLMBOE String Quartets, Vol 2 (Nightingale String Quartet)

The Nightingale Quartet’s first volume (3/21) opened with Holmboe’s first published quartet, Op 46, and this second concludes with his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

HILLER Piano Quartet No 3. Piano Quintet Op 156

Ferdinand Hiller (1811 85) is one of those composers known more as a name in the biographies of others than...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022

FRANCK Complete Chamber Music

‘Pater Seraphicus’ was the nickname bestowed on César Franck by his devoted pupils, the so-called bande à Franck. Genteel sensibilities...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2022

BRANCO; RAVEL; VILLA-LOBOS Violin Sonatas (Bruno Monteiro)

In programming terms alone, your interest may be piqued by this distinctly off-piste combination of violin sonatas from Portuguese violinist...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2022

BRAHMS; FINZI Music for Clarinet and Piano (Helen Habershon)

The thought of pairing Brahms and Finzi hadn’t occurred to me before but it makes perfect sense, particularly with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022

BRAHMS Serenades (Linos Ensemble)

Brahms was careful not to leave much if any evidence of his compositional struggles, thus there’s no score of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022

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