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LUTOSŁAWSKI; PENDERECKI Complete Music for Violin and Piano

It was an astute move of the Foyle-Štšura Duo to combine the outputs for violin and piano by Lutosławski and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019

KORNGOLD; ZEMINSKY Piano Trios (Stefan Zweig Trio)

The coupling isn’t as common as you’d think, which is explained in part by the contradictory currents that were swirling...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2019

HOFFMEISTER Solo Quartets Nos 3 & 4

It’s possible to have mixed feelings about Franz Anton Hoffmeister. As a publisher, he gave the world Mozart’s Quartet K499;...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2019

HENDERICKX Nostalgia

The number of string ensembles active may be considerable but Boho Strings is second to none in terms of its...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019

DVOŘÁK Piano Quartets Nos 1 & 2 (Dvořák Piano Quartet)

It’s good to have another disc pairing Dvořák’s two piano quartets – not as popular a choice as you might...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2019

FAURÉ; CHAUSSON; SATIE Piano Trios

The Fidelio Trio made Editor’s Choice for their Ravel and Saint Saëns piano trios for Resonus (11/16), and this further...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2019

BEETHOVEN Septet (Emma Johnson et al)

Plenty of charismatic playing here, in a programme clearly planned to entertain. The main attraction is Beethoven’s Septet – not...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019

Jorge Bolet: Berlin Radio Recordings, Vol 3

According to Audite’s booklet, this is the final volume of Bolet’s (West) Berlin recordings made between 1961 and 1974. The...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2019

PUCCINI Madama Butterfly (Chailly)

The premiere of Madama Butterfly at La Scala, Milan, in 1904 was famously one of operatic history’s great flops. So...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2019

VIVALDI Il Giustino (Dantone)

First performed in Rome in 1724, Il Giustino is among the most beautiful and cogent of Vivaldi’s operas. Using a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2019

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