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Review of BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 3, 11 & 13

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 3, 11 & 13

In case you cast an eye across the movement contents of Op 130 and feel short-changed because Beethoven’s rewritten finale...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017

Review of VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Job. Symphony No 9

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Job. Symphony No 9

This generous coupling of two RVW masterworks reprises – and outshines – Andrew Davis’s own Teldec British Line offering from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

Review of HOWELL; BEACH; CHAMINADE Piano Concertos

HOWELL; BEACH; CHAMINADE Piano Concertos

None of the 91 composers featured on the previous 69 volumes in Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series has been a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

Review of Dynastie: Bach Family Concertos

Dynastie: Bach Family Concertos

The young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau made his debut on Erato in 2015 with ‘Imagine’, a recital of Bach keyboard...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2017

Review of Baroque Treasury

Baroque Treasury

Arguments about period versus modern instruments in Baroque repertoire may reign forever, but performances in recent decades have proved that...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017

Review of American Voices: Music for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

American Voices: Music for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

The Waldland Ensemble have two missions: expanding the repertoire for clarinet, viola and piano, and raising awareness of conservation issues....

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017

Review of R PATERSON Moon Trio. Sun Trio. Elegy

R PATERSON Moon Trio. Sun Trio. Elegy

Robert Paterson (b1970) is an award-winning composer (as well as a percussionist and conductor) from Buffalo in New York State....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2017

Review of MANCHICOURT Missa Reges Terrae

MANCHICOURT Missa Reges Terrae

It is one of the joys of a recording like this that it brings a remote moment in classical music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017

Review of GORDON Timber Remixed

GORDON Timber Remixed

‘Timber!’ is what lumberjacks yell to alert colleagues that a tree is falling. But there’s no need to run away...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017

Review of CHOPIN Complete Mazurkas

CHOPIN Complete Mazurkas

First released on the Dorian label in 1999, Andrew Rangell’s complete Chopin Mazurkas cycle gains a new lease of catalogue...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017


 

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