Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
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Three American Violin Sonatas (Cho-Liang Lin)
On the evidence of this disc, the violin sonata is alive and kicking in 21st-century America. The form has a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020
La bellezza: The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music
'The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music’ is Lina Tur Bonet’s subtitle for this new release with her ensemble Musica...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020
Barricades (Thomas Dunford, Jean Rondeau)
If you’re the sort who likes to know exactly what’s going on, you may well find this album frustrating. What...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020
SCHUBERT String Quintet & String Trio (Aviv Quartet)
Why did the string trio of violin, viola and cello never really catch on as a genre? Mozart, having written...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2020
SCHUBERT Trout Quintet (Thymos Quartet)
Christoph Eschenbach and the Thymos Quartet had me smiling from the very first bars of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. How affectionately...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2020
Hee-Young Lim: Russian Cello Sonatas
Old-school musicologists may scoff but these exceptionally melodic sonatas are now among the most frequently played of their kind. Not...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020
PINNOCK Lines and Spaces
The arresting output of Naomi Pinnock (b1979) has not received much exposure in the UK (the Huddersfield Festival excepted), so...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020
PIATTI Operatic Fantasies, Vol 2
How many student cellists have fallen in love, despite themselves, with the studies of Alfredo Piatti? It’s not that they’re...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020
LIM Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
Based at the University of Huddersfield, the Australian composer Liza Lim is one of a growing number of contemporary composers...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2020
HAYDN String Quartets, Op 76 Nos 1‑3 ( Chiaroscuro Quartet)
Charles Burney hit the nail on the head. The Op 76 quartets, he wrote, were proof of Haydn’s enduringly youthful...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020
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Review - William Christie: The Complete Erato Recordings
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
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