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PHIBBS String Quartets

When Andrew Farach-Colton reviewed Joseph Phibbs’s First String Quartet (2014) – also recorded by the Piatti Quartet (Champs Hill, 11/18)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2024

NESET Who We Are

What happens when an established classical pianist and jazz saxophonist pool together their not inconsiderable resources in the service of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2024

IVES Violin Sonatas. Piano Sonatas (Stefan Jackiw, Jeremy Denk)

The 150th anniversary of Ives’s birth and 70th of his death has so far occasioned relatively few recordings, making this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2024

DVOŘÁK Complete Works For Violin and Piano (Jirí Vodicka)

One tends to forget just how much violin-and-piano duo music there exists by Dvořák when you consider both the works...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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