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Schabernack - A Treasure Trove of Musical Jokes

Given how rare it is to find a centuries-old instrumental work to be really, genuinely funny, it’s tempting to take...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2017

TWIGG Chamber Music

Listeners unfamiliar with this composer have more than likely heard his playing, Colin Twigg (b1960) having been a violinist in...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2017

SCHUMANN Music for Clarinet

It’s quite rare that a clarinet disc focuses on Robert Schumann. A clarinettist’s chamber repertoire tends to be built upon...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017

RAFTERY Chamber Music

This is – I believe – the first commercial recording of music by Kevin Raftery (b1952), an expatriate American composer...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2017

MOZART Serenade No 19, 'Gran Partita'

Gramophone’s classification (12/08) of the LSO as the fourth-best orchestra in the world always made me think of The Housemartins,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2017

MOZART; HAYDN Concertos & Divertimentos

The three concertos designated K107 are in fact arrangements of sonatas (Op 5 Nos 2 4) by JC Bach, whom...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2017

MOZART; WEBER Clarinet Quintets

‘How I Met Mozart’: how indeed? Don’t look for answers in the booklet of this CD, which includes several pictures...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2017

GADE Chamber Works Vol 3

When we tot up the profit-and-loss account of Niels Gade’s bicentenary year in December, I fear it won’t be CPO’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2017

FAURÉ; FRANCK Violin Sonatas

What does a disc of Romantic French violin sonatas suggest to you? Subtle colours, belle époque elegance, the ‘play of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2017

DUSAPIN String Quartets Nos 6 & 7

He may have limited presence in UK concert halls but Pascal Dusapin (b1955) continues to be among the most recorded...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2017

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