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New Baroque – Sonatas

This recording showcases the results of the fifth iteration of the annual RůŽičková Composition Competition, which invites composers to write...

Reviewed in issue 04/2025

Renaud Capuçon: Richard Strauss

The opening tutti of the 17-year-old Richard Strauss’s Violin Concerto has a Schumann-like ring to it, especially as played by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2025

ROSLAVETS Cello Sonatas 1 & 2 (Marina Tarasova)

Nikolay Roslavets was born in 1881, the same year as Myaskovsky, Bartók and Enescu. His father worked for the railway,...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 04/2025

RAVEL; SCHUBERT 'Harmonie du Soir'

The Trio Con Brio Copenhagen recorded the Ravel Trio for a 2007 release (nla) on the US-based Azica label. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2025

MOZART Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin (Sayaka Shoji)

‘Sonatas for keyboard with violin accompaniment’, we are always reminded, and in performances on instruments of the period (or very...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2025

MOZART Complete Works for Clarinet, Vol 1 (Nicolas Baldeyrou)

‘On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse – bassoons and basset-horns – like...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2025

MARAIS Sonnerie De Sainte-Genevieve Du Mont

Marin Marais’s 1723 collection La gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie comes between his fourth (1717) and fifth (1725) Livres...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2025

HAYDN Piano Trios Vol 4 (Trio Gaspard)

All four Haydn piano trios collected here are from late in the composer’s career but none might really be counted...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2025

HAHN Piano Quintet. Songs. Piano Quartet

The music of Reynaldo Hahn is well known to song enthusiasts – who doesn’t adore the delectable ‘À Chloris?’ –...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2025

GÓRECKI Complete String Quartets (Silesian Quartet)

Once upon a time (ie in 2008) there was a major record label called EMI. Its ambitious Polish branch published...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 04/2025

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