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The Piano Music, Chamber Music and Songs of Thomas de Hartmann (Elan Sicroff)

Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956) was one of musical history’s ‘nearly men’. As Elan Sicroff – the pianist in all three...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2021

Stolen Pearls (Oyster Duo)

Solo practitioners have increased markedly over recent decades but the double bass remains limited as to repertoire. All the more...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021

La La Hö Hö: Sixteenth-century works for Viol Consort

Recitals focusing on Renaissance viol consorts are pretty thin on the ground. (One thinks back to a series of recordings...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2021

SCHUMANN Complete Piano Trios, Quartet & Quintet (Christophe Gaugué, Trio Wanderer)

The music featured here is a tale of extremes, with the piano trios still relatively under-recorded, while the Quintet and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021

MOZART Wind Serenades K361 & 375

Amid a vast array of recordings of Mozart’s lavish Gran Partita, performances on 18th-century instruments are still comparatively rare. Which...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2021

MESSIAEN Quartet For the End of Time ROHDE One Wing (Left Coast Chamber Ensemble)

How many, one wonders, in that first audience of the Quartet for the End of Time in Stalag VIII-A on...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2021

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets, Op 44 (Minguet Quartet)

When the 28-year-old Mendelssohn composed his three Op 44 string quartets during 1837-38, life was going exceedingly well. In his...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2021

LABOR Violin Sonata. Cello Sonata

From the evidence on this and Oliver Triendl and friends’ previous disc of Josef Labor’s chamber music (Capriccio, 12/19), the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2021

BRAHMS Clarinet Sonatas. Vier ernste Gesänge (Julian Bliss)

Back in 2016 I enjoyed the forthright drive of Julian Bliss playing Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet with the Carducci Quartet (Signum,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

If you’ve yet to be persuaded of the merits of the Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand Piano, this bright-eyed...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2021

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