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MOZART Gran Partita SIMPSON Geysir

‘Glorious and grand, magnificent and sublime’, ran a contemporary verdict on Mozart’s Gran Partita, music that both crowns and transcends...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2021

MASON Zwischen den Sternen. Songbooks, Vol 1

‘Zwischen den Sternen’ – ‘Between the stars’ – are the opening words of one of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2021

HAYDN String Quartets, Op 74. Scottish folk tunes (Maxwell Quartet)

Whereas Haydn’s earlier quartets were designed for players and a small group of connoisseurs, his Opp 71 and 74 were...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos. 7 & 10 (James Ehnes)

It’s been said before but it’s worth restating: Beethoven described both of the works on this album as sonatas for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021

Emmanuel Pahud: Beethoven

Beethoven’s output of chamber music foregrounding the flute is early and not extensive, so flautists understandably appropriate arrangements of works...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021

BEACH; CLARKE; IVES Piano Trios (Gould Piano Trio)

A welcome release from The Gould Piano Trio, now into its third decade, whose repertoire stretches right across this medium....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2021

Verklärte Nacht: Schoenberg, Fried, Lehár, Korngold

Hard as it may be in 2021 to read past the sticky paternalism of Richard Dehmel’s best-known poem, early 20th-century...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2021

New Year's Concert 2021

There can have been no stranger occasion in the New Year’s Concert’s 80-year history than this: the Vienna Philharmonic playing...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2021

United Strings of Europe: in motion

This superbly played and vividly engineered release, featuring works from three continents and four different centuries, is the debut album...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021

English Music for Strings: Britten, Bliss, Bridge, Berkeley

John Wilson’s reverence for Sir John Barbirolli’s iconic disc of ‘English String Music’ with the now reborn Sinfonia of London...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2021

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