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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

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

SENFTER Chamber Music

When reviewing Kilian Herold and the Armida Quartet’s recording of Johanna Senfter’s fine Clarinet Quintet, Richard Whitehouse hoped ‘that more...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Schubert Reimagined (Josephine Knight)

Adaptations of Schubert range from faithful transcriptions to more intricate amplifications and radical realisations such as Berio’s Rendering. Since the...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 08/2024

Tempus omnia vicit: Purcell, Schubert, Josquin

International music competitions gifting a recording as part of their first-prize package may be increasingly common but few competition-label partnerships...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2024

RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonatas (Dóra Kokas)

According to cellist Dóra Kokas, ‘Hypnosis’ (this programme’s title) refers to the hypnotherapy Rachmaninov underwent in order to overcome a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024

POHLE Complete Sonatas & Ballet Music (Sailly)

David Pohle’s name is probably not familiar to many. Though his music appears on a handful of recorded anthologies of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2024

ELGAR 'Mot d’amour' Works for Violin and Piano

Of the many recordings now available of Elgar’s Violin Sonata (which I surveyed in a Gramophone Collection in January 2016),...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2024

DEL CAMPO String Quartets 8 & 9

The legacy of 14 quartets by Conrado del Campo (1878-1953) has so far not won the attention of Naxos’s compendious...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024

BUXTEHUDE 'Alchemy of Another' Trio Sonatas Op 1

Recordings of Buxtehude’s trio sonatas enjoy a healthy presence in the catalogue these days, no doubt because their unusual scoring...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2024

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