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WEINBERG Piano Quintet. Cello Sonata No 2. Piano Sonatine

Remarkably, recorded versions of Weinberg’s Piano Quintet are now up around double figures. Maybe not so remarkably, because this is...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 3 (Belcea Quartet)

Shostakovich is something of a departure on disc for both the Belcea Quartet and Piotr Anderszewski but a very welcome...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018

SCHUBERT Piano Trios (Trio Vitruvi)

This debut recording by the Trio Vitruvi leaves me frankly perplexed. On the one hand, I’m impressed by these young...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

SCHUBERT Octet (Faust et al)

As the cover billing suggests, Isabelle Faust is very much the guiding light in this period-instrument Octet. Yet her creative...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2018

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios (Gould Piano Trio)

‘A conversation between two instruments instead of a debate between two virtuosos’ is how Saint-Saëns described La Muse et le...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018

PARRY String Quartets Nos 1-3. Scherzo (Archaeus Quartet)

Parry made no secret of his musical lineage. ‘Zweite Quartette C dur’, wrote the 20-year-old composer on the score of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018

MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Marcy Rosen)

The cellist Marcy Rosen was a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and remained with the ensemble for more...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

HANDEL Suites and Trio Sonatas

We have the Philharmonie de Paris’s Musée de la Musique to thank for this thoughtful programme from Ensemble Amarillis, because...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2018

HAMILTON music for people who like art

The Irish composer Andrew Hamilton (b1977) writes what one might describe as informal process music, whereby very short musical fragments...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2018

GÓRECKI String Quartet No 3 (Dafô Quartet)

Górecki’s Third String Quartet remains one of his most indecipherable works. It is a meditation on death (the Russian poet...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2018

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