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SCELSI Complete Flute Music

The Scelsi conundrum is fully on display in this brightly recorded compilation of compositions involving the flute. The good news...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2016

RABL Clarinet Quartet. Fantasiestücke, Violin Sonata

Walter Rabl is barely a footnote entry to late-Romantic music, largely because after a promising start as a composer –...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2016

MENDELSSOHN Pianos Trios Nos 1 & 2

Is it just me, or are piano trios getting younger? The Hamlet Trio, whose Mendelssohn I reviewed a few months...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016

GRIEG; THOMMESSEN; SIBELIUS String Quartets

The quiet E minor chords that give Sibelius’s Voces intimae its nickname occur a minute and a half into the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

TANEYEV; GLAZUNOV String Quintets

Taneyev and Glazunov were the two opposite extremes of their generation in Russia. Taneyev was the stern artistic conscience of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

FREY Grizzana and Other Pieces. Circles and Landscapes

I listened to these two sets of instrumental and solo piano works by the Swiss composer Jürg Frey in instalments...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2016

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Piano Quintets Nos 1 & 2

The story of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is tragically familiar. Hailed as a bright young modernist in the 1920s, only to be...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

Dämmerung: Late 19th Century Cello Sonatas

It’s a nice parallel that all the lesser-known sonatas on this disc, entitled ‘Twilight’, were written when their respective composers...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2016

Russian Dances

Swans, footballers and a baby elephant make for an unusual ballet troupe on this disc of Russian dances. The Orchestre...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2016

Scherben / Shards

Jonathan Harvey’s Sringāra Chaconne is a late work whose exuberant balancing of sensuous and spiritual, Eastern and Western, sums up...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2016

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