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BRAHMS Piano Trios (Trio Sõra)

I thoroughly enjoyed Trio Sōra’s nimble, clear-textured traversal of Beethoven’s six piano trios (Naïve, 12/20), although I found a few...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024

Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol 1

The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, the brainchild of violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster, has justified its name in several...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024

BORTKIEWICZ; KOSENKO; SKORYK 'Ukrainian Masters'

Only the first panel of this absorbing triptych is advertised as a first recording, but Viktor Kosenko’s Sonata of 1927...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024

VIVALDI Le Quattro Stagioni (Julien Chauvin; Luka Faulisi)

‘Yes, “another” recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons!’ cries Le Concert de la Loge’s violinist director Julien Chauvin at the top...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 PÄRT De profundis (Storgårds)

Shostakovich’s Thirteenth is sonically the most austere of all his symphonies: it features a bass soloist, a male choir and...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2024

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Janowski)

Reviewing Marek Janowski’s Beethoven cycle on Pentatone (2/21), Andrew Farach-Colton drew attention to its consistently clear articulation, ‘striking lack of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024

Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru

If ‘Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru’ initially sounds like the title of a gangsta rap album, nothing could be further...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2024

LIGETI Concertos and Chamber Music (Bleuse)

In the year of his centenary and with its own half-century fast approaching, it made sense for Ensemble Intercontemporain to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024

LACHENMANN My Melodies

Lachenmann’s title is a playful tease in the spirit of the toy frogs who pop up in his 1983 ensemble...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024

HOWARD Orchestral Works (Seal)

There has not previously been a release devoted to Dani Howard (b1993). Fluent across the broad range of genres (witness...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024

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