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Diana Tishchenko: Strangers in paradise

When the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko won the 2018 Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris she was the indisputable winner....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2019

Mischa & Lily Maisky: 20th Century Classics

The most interesting item here is a wild amalgam of folk-derived dance music and orchestral rabble-rousing from Tajikistan-born Benjamin Yusupov,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2019

Telemann's Garden

In conversation with the New York Times in 2008, Alan Gilbert remarked that just ‘because you can give a title...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2019

RAVEL Voyageur

Ravel’s music for violin and piano is easily overlooked as a facet of his output but stretches over almost his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2019

MOZART String Quartets Nos 14 & 15

The Van Kuijk’s second disc of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets builds on their growing reputation as one of the foremost young...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2019

MOLIQUE Chamber Music, Vol 2

I think I have found a new friend. Immediately appealing, charming and, if not greatly original in thought or language,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018

LABOR Piano Quintet. Piano Quartet

Poor Josef Labor (1842-1924), blind from the age of three, known to us now almost entirely through his use to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019

CHOPIN Piano Trio Op 8. Grande Fantaisie

Chopin discs come and go, with all the usual titles making claims to our attention. Here, for once, is a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS Clarinet Trios (Bedenko)

Beethoven presented his Septet to the Viennese public in April 1800 as part of a marathon concert that also included...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019

ANDERSON Poetry Nearing Silence

This selection of six relatively small-scale chamber pieces by Julian Anderson takes in works written between 1987 and 2015; and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2019

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