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B TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio. Cello Sonata (Marwood)

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in B minor? No, not in A minor. Nor, indeed, that Tchaikovsky. Naxos has done well by...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2018

STANFORD String Quartets 3, 4 & 7 (Dante Quartet)

I think it was George Bernard Shaw who first remarked that Stanford was at his best when he forgot to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2018

SCHUMANN 3 String Quartets (Engegård Quartet)

The Norwegian Engegård Quartet have only recently started programming single-composer discs (they released Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets last year – LAWO...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

RUDERS Occam's Razor (David Starobin)

In honour of William of Ockham’s famous dictum that the simplest solution tends to be the correct one, the eighth...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Vol 1 (Doric Quartet)

What makes the Doric the Doric? Is it their ability to reveal detail, though never at the cost of broader...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

BRAY Chamber and solo works

An earlier disc devoted to Charlotte Bray (1/15) has proved one of the most notable in NMC’s Debut series and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2018

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Schayegh, Schultsz)

These interpretations of the Brahms violin sonatas delve far more deeply into ‘historically informed performance practice’ than any period-instrument recording...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018

BOCCHERINI Cello Sonatas (Cocset)

It’s such a very long time since the French baroque cellist Bruno Cocset brought out his first excellent Boccherini album...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2018

Zhenni Li: Mélancholie

Zhenni Li’s new Steinway release is a bolt from the blue. Li holds bachelor and master’s degrees from Juilliard, where...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2018

Rebecca Jeffreys & Alexander Timofeev: Friends in Common Time

Flautist Rebecca Jeffreys and pianist Alexander Timofeev may not always be ‘Friends in Common Time’ on their new disc, given...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2018

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