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HAYDN Piano Trios

Eighteenth-century keyboard trios were regularly billed as ‘sonatas for the harpsichord or fortepiano, with the accompaniment of violin and violoncello’....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016

FINNISSY Beat Generation Ballads. First Political Agenda. Singular Voices

The writer Iain Sinclair once told me in an interview that Beat culture provided him with a very necessary escape...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas

When Brahms played through his First Cello Sonata with its dedicatee, Josef Gänsbacher, the cellist apparently complained that he couldn’t...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

ABRAHAMSEN Landscapes. Walden

The Ophelia of Hans Abrahamsen’s let me tell you (2013), the contemporary ‘work of the moment’, surrenders to the deadly...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016

STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel ZEMLINSKY Die Seejungfrau

It maybe seems a bit unfair to pit Strauss’s brilliant Till Eulengspiegel against Die Seejungfrau, more of a slow-burn affair...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2016

VAN DER AA Violin Concerto. Hysteresis

Van der Aa acolytes may be surprised at the lack of a visual element in his new Violin Concerto (2014),...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016

STOJOWSKI Violin Concerto. Romance

Bartomiej Nizio (b1974 in Poland) has a seductively silky smooth tone and a narrow vibrato, and plays with exactly the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

STOCK Concertos

When the Pittsburgh composer David Stock died last year, aged 76, he was celebrated for the hearty contributions he had...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 08/2016

SIBELIUS Symphony No 2. Finlandia. Karelia Suite

Virtuoso conducting and immaculate orchestral playing, for sure, but there are drawbacks. Finlandia distils plenty of truculent defiance but there’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2016

SCHUMANN Complete Symphonic Works, Vol 6

With this sixth and final volume in his series of the ‘Complete Symphonic Works’, Heinz Holliger mops up the remaining...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016

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