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Souvenirs d'Italie: Mr Harrach's Musical Diaries

Maurice Steger’s latest album draws on the manuscript library of Count von Harrach, an elderly musical and recorder-minded Austrian diplomat...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2017

The Kreisler Story

At least two challenges face any violinist who plays Fritz Kreisler’s music. First, there are the inimitable recordings by Kreisler...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2017

Caerulean

One of the most renowned clarinetists on the new music scene, Carl Rosman has worked closely with each of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2017

L'Ange et le Diable

This disc’s title comes from the fact that three of its virtuoso-composers were compared in their day either to an...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017

FRANCK; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas

It was a sensible choice for Augustin Hadelich and Joyce Yang to put André Previn’s Tango Song and Dance first...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2017

SAARIAHO Chamber Works for Strings 2

My colleague Andrew Mellor’s smart little analysis of the cul-de-sac into which Kaija Saariaho has driven her work during the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017

RÖNTGEN String Trios Nos 13 - 16

This review wrote itself. All the marvellous traits I noted in Vols 1 3 (2/14, 11/14, 3/16) apply here: the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2017

TANEYEV; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Piano Trios

Although Borodin and Tchaikovsky wrote string quartets and, in Tchaikovsky’s case, a piano trio that have maintained their rightful place...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2017

RACHMANINOV; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonatas

Johannes Moser is palpably a gifted cellist, lending his warm tone to two very different Russian sonatas. I was momentarily...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017

PROKOFIEV Violin Sonata No 1. 5 Melodies. Romeo and Juliet Suite

The Japanese violinist Lisa Oshima has by no means gone for the easier option here, choosing, instead of Prokofiev’s more...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2017

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