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SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 2, 7 & 8 (Pave Haas Quartet)

Shostakovich’s Second Quartet is remarkable for its sheer insistence. Long stretches of the first movement are sustained at a constant...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2019

POULENC; SEABOURNE; VLADIGEROV Violin Sonatas

Poulenc wasn’t instinctively drawn to the violin sonata: ‘The prima donna violin over arpeggiated piano nauseates me’, he’s reported to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019

MOZART; SCHUBERT Quartets Nos 15 (Quatour Voce)

These two works are, as per the cover legend, ‘Quartets Nos 15’ but apart from this they are perhaps an...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019

MOZART Piano Trios (M Barenboim, D Barenboim & Soltani)

Naturally, the big personality here is Barenboim. Not Daniel but Michael Barenboim, his violinist son, himself an estimable soloist in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019

KODÁLY Cello Sonatina, Cello Sonata, Duo for Cello and Violin

Julian Steckel digs into the first chord of Kodály’s Solo Sonata (1914) with a gruff flourish, and from there his...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2019

HANDEL Complete Solo Sonatas (Il Rossignolo)

Perhaps surprisingly, this chunky four CD set from Il Rossignolo stands as the very first complete recording of all Handel’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2019

DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 2

In another life Marc-André Hamelin might have made a great political agitator, or even an evangelist. He has an unbeatable...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2019

BRAHMS; SCHUBERT The Complete Duos / Coda

Pieter Wispelwey’s multi-album mission to record all of Brahms’s and Schubert’s duos – not just the ones for cello –...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2019

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 7 & 8 (Quatuor Ébène)

A well-spaced recording from the chamber music hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus places the Ébène players in the traditional layout,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

BEACH; CLARKE; FARRENC Piano Trios (Neave Trio)

There are some half-dozen accounts of Amy Beach’s 1938 Trio (in A minor, not specified on the disc) currently available...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019

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