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POULENC; JANÁČEK; PROKOFIEV String Quartets

Linking these three violin sonatas under the title ‘Sounds of War’ produces a powerful recital. Each work caused its composer...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2015

Brendan Goh: Moments of Youth

This is Singaporean cellist Brendan Goh’s second recording (the first was a charity CD), and the title presumably refers to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015

Italians in London!

There are so many violin sonatas by Italian composers from the first half of the 18th century that mixed anthologies...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2015

La Clarinette Française

This truly outstanding CD is not only ideally programmed and superbly played – using a clarinet from 1830 and a...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue:

TANSMAN Music for Violin and Piano

Putting one’s finger on the personality of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) can be bewildering and defeating. His core sensibility is elusive,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 4, 8 & 11

Here is a more than respectable calling-card for the young Anglo-Irish Carducci Quartet, who clearly have the technical measure of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2015

SCHUBERT Chamber Works

Pentatone has packaged together the two volumes of Schubert recorded by Julia Fischer and Martin Helmchen in 2009. The performances...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue:

SALLINEN Chamber Music

In his Piano Trio, completed in 2010, Aulis Sallinen imagined ‘the sensuous world of a painter going blind’. It seems...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015

RILEY In C

Terry Riley’s In C extends an open invitation. Instrumentalists and singers with even rudimentary technical skills will likely have sufficient...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015

RIETI Chamber Music with Harpsichord

The composer and virtuoso harpsichordist Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994) is best known for his long and enduring friendship with Igor Stravinsky,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015

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