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The Music of Jean Sibelius (Chamber Domaine)

Sibelius as proto-minimalist – well, why not? That’s what the conductor Thomas Kemp suggests in his booklet notes, and his...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018

SCHUBERT Trout Quintet BRAHMS Piano Quintet

Two Trouts, one frolicking in the Oder, the other freezing in an Alpine stream in the skiing region around Chamonix....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018

SCHUBERT Aus der Ferne (Signum Quartet)

‘Sit back and enjoy’ urges the booklet and it really would be a pity not to listen right through. A...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018

NYMAN String Quartets Nos 4 & 5

Sixteen years separate Nyman’s String Quartets Nos 4 and 5 – quite a hiatus when you consider that Nos 1...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2018

MYASKOVSKY Cello Sonatas

If ever you needed proof of how utterly tone-deaf were the Soviet Union’s post-war denunciations of musical ‘formalism’, you couldn’t...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018

HAYDN Piano Trios (Trio Wanderer)

Five Haydn piano trios trace a passage from light to darkness – well, almost. The Trio Wanderer open with the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018

HAHN Chamber Music & Song Vol 1

Too little attention has been paid to Reynaldo Hahn’s chamber music of late, so this beautiful CD, marking the start...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2018

Beau Soir: Works for Violin and Piano

The name of Kyung Wha Chung automatically compels respect, and it might be argued that if any artist has earned...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018

CRESSWELL Music For String Quartet

Born in New Zealand though long resident in Edinburgh, Lyell Cresswell (b1944) is among those ‘well-respected if not widely known’...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2018

BOCCHERINI Apocryphal Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord

This disc’s cover image – violinist Emilio Moreno selecting a patterned shirt from a bundle on a hanger, jacket gripped...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2018

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