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Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim: Live from Buenos Aires

In August 2014 Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim came together at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, for their first-ever joint...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

Hora Cero

The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic play tangos: you just know it’s going to sound gorgeous, and it does....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

VIERNE Piano Quintet

Vierne endured an unfairly troublous life: he was born nearly blind; both his wife and subsequent partner left him; he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

SIMPSON Night Music

Mark Simpson has said that extramusical ideas or narrative structures help his music ‘flow’ more easily. The only work on...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016

PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas. Five Melodies

It is tempting, for simplicity’s sake, to describe Prokofiev’s violin sonatas as polar opposites – at least in terms of...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 08/2016

WIDMANN Musicalischer Tugendtspiegel PRAETORIUS Terpsichore Musarum

If Michael Praetorius’s music has been widely anthologised, the same is not true of his close contemporary, Erasmus Widmann, who...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016

A POOLE Sonata, Divisions & Dances

Anthony Poole (c1629-1692) is an obscure composer, no doubt of that. The catalogue of his works runs to over 300...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2016

Nils Mönkemeyer: Mozart with Friends

Mozart’s penchant for lower-voiced instruments found one of its finest chamber outlets in the Kegelstatt Trio, K498, supposedly composed during...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016

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

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