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TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartets Nos 1 & 3

Although only five years separate Tchaikovsky’s first and last string quartets, they are stylistically very different. The First, written in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016

STANFORD String Quartets Nos 5 & 8

Stanford’s Fifth String Quartet walks out with a spring in its step and a song on its lips: not, perhaps,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH Complete String Quartets (Brodsky Quartet)

With this live set, captured last March in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw (not to be confused with the venerable Concertgebouw), the Brodsky...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2016

SCHUMANN Piano Quintet. Märchenbilder

The Benvenue Fortepiano Trio (and friends) tear into the opening of Schumann’s Quintet with gusto, making the most of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 1

The choice of the first of Saint-Saëns’s two string quartets is a rather apt pairing with the Quintet in that...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2016

REICH WTC 9/11. Different Trains

Steve Reich began transforming speech into music in the mid 1960s. I vividly remember my first encounter with Come Out...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016

PLEYEL String Quartets

Ignaz Pleyel is one of those figures who seems to pop up everywhere: as both composition student of Haydn and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

ONSLOW String Quintets nos 20 & 26

Amateur chamber musicians will need no introduction to Georges Onslow. One of his 30-odd two-cello quintets usually gets pulled from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

MOZART String Quintets Nos 5 & 6

The Chilingirian’s cycle of Mozart’s six string quintets has been nine years in the making and I’m sorry to have...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2016

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 5 & 6

With this, we reach the concluding disc of the Mendelssohn cycle by the Escher Quartet. As with previous instalments (8/15...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2016

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