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MOZART; POLUENC Violin Sonatas

Poulenc wasn’t too sure about violin sonatas: ‘The prima donna violin over arpeggiated piano makes me want to vomit’, he...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017

MONDONVILLE Trio Sonatas Op 2

I’ve always rather liked the portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville. With his bonny face, playful smile and tidy steel-coloured...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 54 & 55

Is there a greater musical treat than sitting down to listen to a new set of Haydn quartets (well, apart...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017

GOLDBERG Beyond the Variations

Yes, it’s that Goldberg, he of the Variations: the same one whose service as court musician to insomniac Count Keyserlingk...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2017

GLASS Music for the Crucible

Glass has long maintained that he is a theatre composer rather than a minimalist, and has drawn inspiration from the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2017

ENESCU Violin Sonatas Nos 2 & 3

The piano ripples over the opening phrase of the Third Sonata, the violin gives a yearning, wavering cry and immediately...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017

CRANE Sound of Horse

These five scores by the British composer Laurence Crane were written over a period of 13 years, between 1996 and...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5 (complete). Variations

What better way to celebrate an important birthday than with the Beethoven cello sonatas? It’s hard to believe that Ralph...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017

Bach Without Words: Instrumental movements and arrangements from Cantatas

On the face of it, this is turkey-carving or eggnog-making Bach: an album of instrumental contrafacta, if that isn’t a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2017

AUERBACH Arcanum SHOSTAKOVICH 24 Preludes

The viola possesses a voice of inimitable mellowness and mysticism, and it is also capable of the ironic gesture, as...

Reviewed in issue 02/2017

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