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SCHUMANN Works with Wind Instruments

Whatever you think of Schumann’s orchestrational abilities, he had a marvellous sense of instrumental character. How perfectly suited the three...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024

SCHUBERT Octet (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Soloists)

While clarinettists and violinists – horn players, too – may disagree, Schubert’s hedonistic Octet has always seemed to me virtually...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024

SCHENCK L’Echo du Danube

For someone who had never even heard of Johann Schenck, two discs totalling almost two hours of his music is...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2024

PEJAČEVIĆ Chamber Music

Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) died at the age of 38 from complications following childbirth, yet the Croatian composer left behind a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024

MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte (Michael Barenboim)

Hackles might rise at the idea of tampering with Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, those piano gems from that fecund period...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024

KORNGOLD String Sextet TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence

Funny, the unconscious prejudices one acquires. Not that I’ve ever thought of the Nash Ensemble as anything other than excellent;...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024

FAURÉ; GRIEG; R STRAUSS '1883'

Two sonatas written in 1883, Strauss’s the work of a precociously gifted 16-year-old who would up his game four years...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024

EASTMAN Femenine

The rise of Julius Eastman as one of the most significant composers of his generation remains one of the most...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024

DVOŘÁK; GIDDENS; PRICE String Quartets 'But Not My Soul'

Florence Price’s Second Quartet (1935) may not, quite, reach the level of Dvořák’s celebrated American Quartet but it is a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2024

CRUMB 'Complete Crumb Edition, Vol 21'

Long in the making perhaps but, 42 years and 20 releases on, Bridge has fulfilled its plan for a Complete...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2024

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