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DVOŘÁK American String Quartet and Quintet

If you need a tonic, some relief from the insanity of the wider world (I write this in the wake...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017

DEAN Dramatis Personae FRANCESCONI Hard Pace

I can’t find any evidence to corroborate the booklet note’s suggestion that Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis personae is a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2017

JS BACH; BEETHOVEN Fugue

Viol consort and not modern chamber orchestra appears to be the model for the first three contrapuncti of The Art...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2017

DOVE In Damascus. Piano Quintet

Signum Classics’ advocacy of the music of Jonathan Dove continues apace with this superb new chamber/vocal release, recorded in the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2017

Late Night Lute

Waking from a troubling dream late one night, I looked to lutenist Matthew Wadsworth’s exquisite new recording for solace. It...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2017

Anna Tsybuleva: Fantasien

Piano fantasias may have started off as essentially improvisational in nature, yet the genre evolved into something less clearly defined,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017

Back to Bach

It’s a good idea to read Kenneth Hamilton’s booklet before you listen to his disc. Not just because he is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2017

Christoph Sietzen: Attraction

Percussionists, and percussion recitals, are hardly uncommon these days but, with ‘Attraction’, Christoph Sietzen has put together a collection of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2017

Walter Gieseking: The Complete 1950s Solo Studio Recordings

These aren’t quite the ‘complete’ Walter Gieseking 1950s solo studio recordings of Brahms, Schubert and Schumann, in that the pianist’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017

Elisabeth Brauss: Debut

This is apparently the debut recording of the remarkable young artist Elisabeth Brauss. Born and trained in Hamburg, Brauss will...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2017

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