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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

DVOŘÁK Piano Trios Nos 3 & 4

With some discs, the very first notes tell you to expect something special. Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff sing softly together...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2018

DODGSON String Trios; Chamber Music with Harp and Guitar

Karolos are a dynamic, virtuoso chamber collective of first-rate players. These two discs – issued separately but together comprising over...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018

M BERKELEY Winter Fragments

Even when working with large-scale forces such as opera and music theatre, Michael Berkeley’s style and expression remain attuned to...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2018

BEETHOVEN The complete string quartets, Vols 5 & 6

I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is about the Elias Quartet’s interpretative style that’s so powerfully...

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

Prism I (Danish Quartet)

Air from another planet: when the Danish String Quartet first encountered late Beethoven it felt to them (as they explain...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2018

The Dreams and Fables I Fashion (Elicia Silverstein)

This debut disc from the American violinist Elicia Silverstein draws its title from the first line of a Metastasio sonnet...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2018

Yuja Wang: The Berlin Recital

‘Exceptional artistry, technical perfection and boundless imagination’ it says on the back cover. Such hype normally puts my back up....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2018

Thibaut Garcia: Bach Inspirations

The 24-year-old Franco-Spanish classical guitarist Thibaut Garcia’s third recording – his second for Erato – revisits the music of Bach...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2018

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