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MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time

Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (1940 41) is arguably the 20th century’s most startling musical portrayal of social...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2018

MOZART; SCHUMANN; MAHLER Piano Quartets

The Berlin Piano Quartet offer an unusual line-up of composers, including the only complete movement of Mahler’s teenage Piano Quartet....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018

Dover Quartet: Voices of Defiance

With extremism once more an ever-present fact of life, the timing of this disc, featuring three string quartets protesting Europe’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2018

SCHUMANN Trio No 1 DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No 4

There’s much to admire in the Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch’s interpretation of Schumann’s D minor Trio: the expressive shaping of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018

SCHUMANN Quartet BRAHMS Quintet

There’s no lack of personalities on display here, but unlike the recent Trout Quintet, indubitably led by Anne-Sophie Mutter (DG,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018

BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Vol 4

You can tell a lot about a performance of Beethoven’s Quartet Op 18 No 2 from its first bar. It’s...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018

JS BACH Variations on Variations

‘Variations on Variations’ sees Rinaldo Alessandrini take keyboard works by JS Bach which adopt the variation as their generating musical...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2018

Juliane Banse: Love's Embrace

This programme brings together some of the most seductive songs of Joseph Marx, Walter Braunfels, Korngold and Pfitzner in a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2018

Echoes Through Space and Time

It might not be immediately clear from the cover what this recital actually is. Claudia and Grégory Moulin are billed...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2018

Celebrating English Song

Anyone new to the art of English song in the 20th century should look no further than this delightful programme....

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2018

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