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MÜLLER-HARTMANN Chamber Works

The ‘Music in Exile’ series led by the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble has turned up several worthwhile discoveries among those Jewish...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024

MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps MURAIL Stalag VIIIa

No 20th-century composition rises more determinedly above earthly trials and tribulations than the quartet for violin, cello, clarinet and piano...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024

MADERNA Serenata per un satellite. Venetian Journal

Any mid-20th-century composer as upfront and exuberant in his embrace of modernist and avant-garde techniques as Bruno Maderna was bound...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024

HAYDN Baryton Trios Vol 2

Haydn’s output for the baryton is one of those facets of his artistry that is more known about than it...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024

Handel at Home Vol 2: Total Eclipse

It’s one thing to say that you’re recording a programme of music fit for an 18th-century evening’s domestic music-making. It’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024

BOCCHERINI String Quintets

The Karski Quartet, founded in Belgium in 2018, take their name from Jan Karski, a Second World War resistance fighter,...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2024

BLISS; FERGUSON; HOLLOWAY Octets & Clarinet Quintet

The larger chamber combinations of wind and strings – one thinks of Beethoven’s Septet, Schubert’s Octet and the nonets of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2024

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Antje Weithaas)

I found much to admire in the first instalment of Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon’s survey of the Beethoven violin...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 1 (Doric String Quartet)

The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024

BEETHOVEN String Quartets opp 74 & 130

The six Op 18 Quartets now under their belts, the Chiaroscuro Quartet have chosen for the next instalment of their...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024

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