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COOPER Oculus

For evidence of the blurred boundaries that keep shifting between music for the concert hall and compositions written for film...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024

BUSONI Violin Sonatas (Nicola Bignami)

In his June 1937 editorial, Compton Mackenzie remarked that Elgar once told him that he considered Busoni ‘the greatest musical...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Rachel Kolly)

On first hearing, this new set of Brahms violin sonatas by Rachel Kolly and Christian Chamorel makes a curious impression:...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024

BRAHMS String Sextets (Grand Trio Vilnius)

Piano trios have cause to be grateful that Brahms’s loyal friend Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903) did such a thoroughly professional job...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024

BRAHMS The String Quartets (Quatuor Agate)

The namesake of France’s Quatuor Agate is an ornamental gemstone. ‘Agate’ also alludes to the group’s affinity for Brahms, whose...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2024

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas SCHUMANN Fünf Stücke im Volkston (Christian Poltera)

Rob Cowan recently remarked that Casals and Horszowski make Brahms’s Second Cello Sonata ‘sound truly the Eroica of cello sonatas’...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2024

Beethoven for Three

My colleague Andrew Farach-Colton ended his review of the previous volume, of the Pastoral and the Piano Trio Op 1...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Piano Concerto No 2 (Kirill Gerstein)

For such a starry orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic has a pretty threadbare Rachmaninov catalogue. Their only symphony cycle was with...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024

Neujahrskonzert 2024

Across the years the New Year’s Day concert from Vienna’s Musikverein has been conducted by the crème de la crème...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024

Metamorphosis

Edmund Finnis describes his Hymn (after Byrd) – an arrangement for string orchestra of the fourth movement of his First...

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

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