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Suite Italienne: Vivaldi, Sollima, Stravinsky

The vitality of sound captured here by Linn is possibly the most attractive aspect of this album. It perfectly suits...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2024

SHOSTAKOVICH Complete String Quartets (Quatuor Danel)

The Shostakovich quartets have moved from the periphery to the centre of the repertoire without too much in the way...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024

From the Beginning: Music for Winds and Piano by Mozart, Thuille and Poulenc

As the booklet note confirms, this recording is ‘a celebration of 30 years of music-making’ between the splendid Galliard Ensemble...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024

HAYDN Complete Piano Trios Vol 3 (Trio Gaspard)

Trio Gaspard return with a third selection from across Haydn’s output of piano trios. The C major and E minor...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024

HANDEL Complete Violin Sonatas (Bojan Čičić)

It’s beginning to feel a bit like buses with Bojan Čičić: you spend ages thinking how enjoyable it would be...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024

COUPERIN Concerts Royaux

Couperin’s four Concerts royaux – each a suite of about half a dozen devilishly attractive instrumental movements, mostly dances –...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024

CHAUSSON Concert in D major LEKEU Violin Sonata

How to do written justice to the delights here in hand? Artists-wise, this is a first-ever solo album from Quatuor...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024

BRAHMS Complete Piano Quartets

This recording of Brahms’s piano quartets featuring the great Hungarian cellist Miklós Perényi, now in his 70s, and a trio...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024

BAKER The Tyranny of Fun

Good things come to those who wait, so the saying goes, and in Richard Baker’s case, it’s been a particularly...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

BAERMANN Clarinet Quintets

Mozart had Anton Stadler and Brahms had Richard Mühlfeld – clarinettists who inspired late masterpieces for their instrument. Heinrich Joseph...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024

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