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VIEUXTEMPS Viola Sonatas

He built his reputation on the violin: writing for it, playing it to a level that invited comparisons with Paganini....

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 06/2017

SZYMANOWSKI Works for Violin and Piano

The litmus test here is the start of ‘La fontaine d’Aréthuse’, the most famous of the three Mythes, where, compared...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2017

L SMITH Drifte

Linda Catlin Smith (b1957) operates out of bustling urban Toronto, although her work puts you in mind of remote no-man’s-lands,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2017

ORNSTEIN Complete Violin Sonatas

The life of Leo Ornstein (1893-2002) is of a fascination such that his music often tends to be overlooked. The...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (arr Stein)

What is the point of arranging music? To bring a work to a wider audience (when Beethoven and Brahms domesticated...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2005

HAYDN The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross

A grotto draped in black, a single lantern, a bishop prostrate before the altar: Haydn himself described the circumstances of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2017

GLANERT Elysion

Detlev Glanert matured under the tutelage of Henze, and in three of the six works here he pays homage to...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2017

FLAMMER String Quartets Nos 4 & 5

The Neos label continues to venture where others refuse to (or no longer) tread with its third release devoted to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017

FAURÉ; SAINT-SAËNS Works for Cello and Piano

Is it possible to define a distinctively French style of cello-playing? It would probably have something to do with the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2017

Sinfonie per violoncello

Regular readers of these pages may spot that this is Giovanni Sollima’s second recording devoted to Giovanni Battista Costanzi, the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2017

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