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PROKOFIEV 'Prokofiev Milestones Vol 1'

This attractive CD is a fresh look at some of Prokofiev’s chamber repertoire, although I wondered whether ‘milestones’ is the...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 03/2024

LOCKE Consorts Flat and Sharp

This disc completes the suites ‘for My Cousin Kemble’ begun on Phantasm’s previous Matthew Locke recording (11/18) and twins them...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2024

LEFANU 'The Path Above the Dunes'

Métier continues its welcome coverage of Nicola LeFanu with this volume of four works spanning some 46 years of her...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2024

Haydn All-Stars

Crisp, brightly sharp-edged and powerful, vibrato-less and pleasantly dry, the opening chord of Haydn’s Piano Trio in E minor, HobXV:12,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024

GERNSHEIM String Quartets Vol 2

If you were seeking to dispel the image of Gernsheim as an epigone of Brahms and a lesser-known contemporary of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2024

ENESCU Piano Quartet No 1 FAURÉ Piano Quartet No 1

In 2022 Naxos released a recording of Enescu’s 1909 Piano Quartet No 1 by an ensemble led by pianist Josu...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2024

Dall'Abaco and the Art of Variation

‘The Joy of Cellos’ would be an appropriate subtitle for this elegant, playful, infectious recital curated by Elinor Frey. The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2024

CORELLI; QUENTIN Flute Sonatas (Anna Besson)

You’d have to have a heart of stone not to be stopped in your tracks at the outset of this...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas (Gary Hoffman)

Writing in general terms, there seem to be two principal routes to the heart of these marvellous works, one relatively...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2024

JS BACH Six Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019 (Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch)

This album of Bach’s Six Sonatas, BWV1014‑19, is accompanied by a lengthy and excellently detailed note from Bach scholar David...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2024

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