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RAVEL; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trios (Busch Trio)

The Busch Trio have been garnering glowing reviews in 19th-century repertoire. Now they show themselves equally at home in the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023

PURCELL Fantastias (John Holloway Ensemble)

There are many recordings of Purcell’s Fantazias to choose from: broken consort in London Baroque’s early account (EMI, 3/84 –...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023

PFITZNER; SMETANA Works for Piano Trio

The belated issue of recordings by the Wiener Schubert Trio, after Schubert (8/11) then Chausson, Debussy and Rachmaninov, continues with...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2023

‘Sonic Alchemy’

Musical alchemies are often forged in strange and unexpected ways, and this engaging album of music by Mozart, Pärt and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2023

BUXTEHUDE Trio Sonatas Op 1 (Ensemble Spinoza)

This is Ensemble Spinoza’s debut album, and I commend them for choosing to record Buxtehude’s Op 1. There is already...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2023

BURGESS Complete Guitar Quartets

It’s probably fair to say that Anthony Burgess is still best known as the author of A Clockwork Orange. But...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2023

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 2 (Sitkovetsky Piano Trio)

Beethoven’s three Op 1 Trios – surely the greatest opus 1 in musical history – are the work of a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2023

Linus Roth: SamBach

JS Bach’s music continues to inspire all manner of innovative arrangements and reworkings, with examples from the past decade or...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2023

Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols

Performing ‘light’ (for want of a better term) music on period instruments is an idea whose time has come. Following...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2023

'Sir Adrian Boult'

More Boult treasures from the radio archives, the pick of the present generous collection comprising his thrillingly powerful traversal with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2023

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