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Review of CORELLI 12 Violin Sonatas (Rachel Barton Pine)

CORELLI 12 Violin Sonatas (Rachel Barton Pine)

Head straight to the opening Adagio of Sonata No 4 in F to get a flavour of Rachel Barton Pine’s...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2024

Review of BLOCK Chamber Works

BLOCK Chamber Works

Frederick Block? No, me neither, and if you know the story of Austrian music in the 20th century you can...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024

Review of BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 2

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 2

Here is the second release in a major studio cycle launched earlier in this, the Doric’s 25th year and intended...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2024

Review of The Experts: The Bach & Silbermann Dynasties

The Experts: The Bach & Silbermann Dynasties

The ‘experts’ celebrated here by French baroque Ensemble Les Surprises under keyboardist-conductor Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas are two musical family...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2024

Review of Michael Collins: British music for clarinet and piano

Michael Collins: British music for clarinet and piano

In this year when the centenary of Stanford’s death is marked, it seems very appropriate that at the heart of...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 11/2024

Review of Unplayed Stories… in 40 Fingers

Unplayed Stories… in 40 Fingers

Multi-pianist discs are few and far between, the visual impact of many hands making light work of (usually) arrangements of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2024

Review of Alison Balsom: Baroque Concertos

Alison Balsom: Baroque Concertos

This programme of deftly configured trumpet adaptations of oboe and violin concertos fairly fizzes. Here we find that rare thing...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2024

Review of G WILLIAMS Orchestral Works (Andrews)

G WILLIAMS Orchestral Works (Andrews)

When Grace Williams went to Caernarfon in 1969 to hear her contribution to the investiture of the Prince of Wales...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 11/2024

Review of SUTTON Orchestral Works (Michael Seal)

SUTTON Orchestral Works (Michael Seal)

Tony-nominated, Olivier-winning Adrian Sutton (b1967, Kent) is celebrated in the theatre world for his scores, the best-known of which are...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2024

Review of SIBELIUS Violin Concerto (James Ehnes)

SIBELIUS Violin Concerto (James Ehnes)

A veritable compendium of Sibelius’s writing for the instrument closest to his heart. There’s the big one, of course, but...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2024

 

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