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Review of MACRAE 'Ursa Minor' Chamber Music

MACRAE 'Ursa Minor' Chamber Music

This is an intelligently programmed album of intelligently constructed, sonically well-imagined music by one of Scotland’s most innovative composers, Stuart...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

Review of LABOR Clarinet Trio. Cello Sonata No. 2

LABOR Clarinet Trio. Cello Sonata No. 2

The Bohemian-born musician Josef Labor (1842-1924), blind from the age of three, lived long enough to record. A surviving portion...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022

Review of CHOPIN; POULENC 'Bleu' Cello Sonatas

CHOPIN; POULENC 'Bleu' Cello Sonatas

This programme was designed, we’re told in the booklet note, to explore the relationship between the colour blue and the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022

Review of BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18 Nos 4-6 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18 Nos 4-6 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)

A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2022

Review of 'Beethoven the Conquering Hero' Complete Cello Sonatas (Jennifer Kloetzel)

'Beethoven the Conquering Hero' Complete Cello Sonatas (Jennifer Kloetzel)

Sample Jennifer Kloetzel’s solo phrase at the start of Beethoven’s Variations on Handel’s ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ and you’ll...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022

Review of BARGIEL Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

BARGIEL Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

My first encounter with the music of Woldemar Bargiel (1828 97) was in 1997 and Steven Isserlis’s recording of his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022

Review of CPE BACH Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano (François Lazarevitch)

CPE BACH Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano (François Lazarevitch)

I think CPE Bach would have got on well with François Lazarevitch, such is the quantity of curiosity and imagination...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2022

Review of Collector: Mozart Concertos

Collector: Mozart Concertos

What’s the collective noun for bassoons? A grumble of bassoons, after the Grandfather in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf? A...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2022

Review of Ophélie Gaillard: A Night in London

Ophélie Gaillard: A Night in London

While mention of the Baroque cello repertoire might first prompt thoughts of Italy, the title of this programme from Ophélie...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2022

Review of Amarcord d'Un Tango

Amarcord d'Un Tango

‘Amarcord d’un Tango’, saxophonist Marco Albonetti writes in a booklet note, ‘was created to offer the listener a brief journey...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022

 

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