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RAUTAVAARA Cello Sonatas

Rautavaara may have moved away from avant-gardism in favour of mystic neo-Romanticism but the works assembled here show that he...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2018

MOZART Violin Sonatas Vol 5 (Ibragimova & Tiberghien)

If ever a Mozart recording were self-recommending, this is it. The first four volumes of the French-Russian duo’s complete sonata...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2018

MARAIS Pièces de viole COUPERIN Les barricades mystérieuses

If you’re thinking ‘ah, just another recording of French viol pieces’, think again. You couldn’t be more wrong. This recording...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2018

ROSSINI String Sonatas Nos 1-3 HOFFMEISTER Solo Quartets Nos 1&2

Hoffmeister and Rossini appear, on the face of it, to be an odd couple indeed. Certainly I can locate no...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2018

HAYDN Six String Quartets, Op 64 (Doric Quartet)

As in earlier volumes of their Haydn series, the Doric often dazzle, occasionally frustrate, in these, the last works Haydn...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2018

FRANCK; GRIEG; LISZT Violin Sonatas, Elegies

If you’ve ever played a musical version of Six Degrees of Separation, you’ll quickly have realised that there aren’t many...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2018

DOWLAND Lachrimae (Les Voix Humaines)

Seven meditations on a shared theme, both musical and emotional, John Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares is much more than...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2018

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

CAGE Concert for Piano and Orchestra WOLFF Resistance

That the dedicatee of John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957 58) is Elaine de Kooning (wife of the...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2018

DVOŘÁK; BRAHMS Piano Trios

The ZEN Trio play this pair of warhorses with the technical assurance, musical conviction and stylistic unanimity of an ensemble...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018

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