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LIGETI 6 Bagatelles. Kammerkonzert. Dix pièces

At first glance, this 44 minute disc bookending György Ligeti’s 1970 Chamber Concerto – a major work – with two...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2017

JÓHANNSSON Orphée

Following the success of his soundtrack to James Marsh’s 2014 biopic on the life of Stephen Hawking, The Theory of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017

MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas

Champs Hill has long been a master talent-spotter and although Alice Neary and Benjamin Frith are both insightful and elegant...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2017

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 1 No 1, 33 No 5 & 77 No 1

This release is essentially a showcase for the Goldmund Quartet, and it’s hard not to warm to a young ensemble...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2017

GÁL Chamber Music for Clarinet

The Hans Gál revival gathers momentum, and close on the heels of Avie’s recent symphony and concerto releases comes another...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2017

GADE Chamber Works Vol 2

Each piece on this second volume in Ensemble MidtVest’s survey of chamber music by Niels Gade is troubled by issues...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017

FUX Concentus musico instrumentalis

We encounter the name of Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) in scholarly books more often than we hear his music. A...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017

BRAHMS; SCHOENBERG String Quartets

My usual impression of Brahms’s Op 67 Quartet, that it opens mid-flow, is heightened by the Kuss Quartet and their...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

BRAHMS Piano Quartets Nos 1 & 3

If you’re sitting still at the end of Brahms’s First Piano Quartet, with its madcap, almost parodistic Hungarian gypsy finale,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017

American Moments

There are some combinations on ‘American Moments’ that feel more like conflicts than contrasts. Initial appearances suggest it is a...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2017

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