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Violin Sonatas & Pieces

‘They speak the language of these composers effortlessly and naturally.’ So says the booklet-note of Latvian sisters Lauma and Baiba...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2016

Chant d’automne

Modern Dutch solo brass players have a knack for programming. For Wim Van Hasselt it’s the creative outlet from various...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2016

MOZART Violin Sonatas

When Mozart’s earliest ‘sonatas for keyboard with violin accompaniment’, K6 9, appeared in Paris in 1764, father Leopold wrote of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2016

MARTINŮ Sonatina MOSZKOWSKI Suite

Trio Koch – Luxembourg-based violinist Philippe Koch, his pianist son Jean-Philippe and violinist daughter Laurence – take pride in championing...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 10/2016

Viennese Miniatures

‘Lanner, Strauss and their waltzes dominate everything,’ wrote Chopin from Vienna in 1830. Not so much these days. If Johann...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

KREISLER; SCHULHOFF; ZEMLINSKY String Quartets

Fritz Kreisler took his only string quartet very seriously indeed, and the Artis Quartet follow suit. Cellist Othmar Müller digs...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

KHORKOVA klangNarbe

The music of the Russian composer Marina Khorkova mines the idiom associated with Helmut Lachenmann and developed by Mark Andre...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 10/2016

DVOŘÁK. SMETANA Piano Trios

Having already produced French and Russian albums, the Atos Trio turn their attention to the Czechs. But the works on...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 10/2016

SZYMANOWSKI; DEBUSSY String Quartets

How do you like your Szymanowski: Romantic sunset or modernist dawn? On its second release, the Meccore Quartet – an...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

BRAHMS 3 String Quartets. Piano Quintet

In 2003 the Belcea Quartet recorded a nerves-on-a-knife’s-edge account of Brahms’s C minor Quartet (Op 51 No 1) for EMI....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2016

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