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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 4 & 5

This new account of Beethoven’s last two piano concertos finds Nicholas Angelich in the company of Laurence Equilbey’s period-instrument Insula...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2018

Revive: Baroque Arrangements for Saxophone Quartet

The Ferio Saxophone Quartet made their debut on Chandos last year with ‘Flux’, an imaginatively programmed disc of Romantic and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2018

In the Theatre of Air (Marsyas Trio)

The remit of the Marsyas Trio is ‘to inspire a generation of new works’ for the combination of flute, cello...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

STRAVINSKY The Soldier's Tale

Rock legend Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd and creator of The Wall, joins forces with players from Long Island’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2018

W BENNETT Sextet. Chamber Trio. String Quartet

William Sterndale Bennett completed his String Quartet in 1831; he was 15 and halfway through his 10 years of study...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018

SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 10 & 14 (Van Kuijk Quartet)

The surface finish of these performances by the Van Kuijk Quartet is astonishing, and particularly so given the quartet formed...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018

SCHMELZER The Emperor's Fiddler'

If Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s name comes first to mind when contemplating brilliant 17th-century Austrian violinists, consider also that...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2018

LANGGAARD Complete works for violin and piano, Vol 2

Dacapo’s traversal of Rued Langgaard’s vast and unruly output continues with this second volume of his music for violin and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2018

HAYDN String Quartets Op 64 (London Haydn Quartet)

‘He has taste, and the most profound knowledge of composition.’ It’s supremely fitting that Haydn paid his great tribute to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018

GADE Chamber music, Vol 4

Each issue of Ensemble MidtVest’s Gade series adds to the stylistic and taxonomical riddles surrounding the composer. While previous instalments...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018

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