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The Romantic Horn

Beethoven wrote his Horn Sonata for the travelling virtuoso Giovanni Punto at such speed that, on the night of the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

Marais meets Corelli

I agree with the business consultant Larry Alton when he describes the Chiller font as a ‘good choice for a...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2019

Philippe Graffin: Fiddler's Blues

The big story here is the first recording of a previously undiscovered seventh unaccompanied violin sonata by Eugène Ysaÿe. Philippe...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

XENAKIS Pléïades (DeciBells)

Xenakis’s orchestral works have not entered the repertoire but those for ensemble have often found a niche; not least his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 1, 2 & 7 (Carducci Quartet)

There’s something rather fun about the idea of pairing Shostakovich’s two shortest quartets – the Seventh and First – with...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

ROMAN Golvinmusiken

If you are familiar with any of the music of Johan Helmich Roman, it is probably his Drottningholmsmusiken that you...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2019

MOZART The String Quintets (Klenke Quartet, Schoneweg)

The Klenke Quartet play modern instruments but are assiduous in their application of historically informed performance practice. Vibrato is employed...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

MARTINAITYTE In Search of Lost Beauty

Lithuanian-born and New York-based, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b1973) has built a substantial and varied catalogue (further details at zibuokle.com), little known...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2019

HAYDN; MOZART; SCHUBERT Quartets (Quatour Akilone)

In the engagingly written booklet notes accompanying this debut release from the young French Quatuor Akilone they talk in some...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 64/4, 54/2 & 20/2 (Jubilee Quartet)

I can’t recall a Haydn quartet disc provoking such mixed feelings as this debut album from the young Jubilee Quartet....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2019

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