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Chausson Chamber Works
Alexandre Dmitriev | Dalia Ouziel | Daniel Rubenstein | Jerrold Rubenstein | Sharon Quartet
These four major chamber works neatly encompass the full span of Chausson’s all-too-short composing career. The Piano Trio is a...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2007
BORODIN Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 2
Goldner Quartet | Julian Smiles | Piers Lane
The comparative novelties here are Borodin’s Piano Quintet in C minor and his Cello Sonata in B minor – comparative,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2017
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood: The Neoclassical Trumpet
As exciting album titles go – ‘Hot Rats’, ‘The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady’ or ‘The Kinks Kontroversy’ –...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015
BRUCKNER String Quintet. String Quartet
Fitzwilliam Quartet | James Boyd
This first ‘period’ recording of Bruckner’s String Quintet may overturn some preconceptions. When writing it in 1879, the composer was...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2015
Romantic Sonatas for Piano Duet
Anthony Goldstone | Caroline Clemmow
All three sonatas in this superbly enterprising recital explore, in radically different ways, the potential and achievement of the duet...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1993
Thalberg Fantasies on operas by Donizetti
Thalberg's operatic fantasies are undeservedly neglected, overshadowed by Liszt's more richly varied and enterprising examples of an ingenious and once...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1994
Mussorgsky Picture from and Exhibition; Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
After numerous solo recordings (his first was a live recital in the Concertgebouw aged 14) and a more recent disc...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2006
HUMPERDINCK String Quartets & Piano Quintet
Andreas Kirpal | Diogenes Quartet | Lydia Dubróvskaya
This well-filled disc contains something like half of Humperdinck’s music for string quartet and piano quintet, most of which he...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2012
STANFORD String Quartets 3, 4 & 7 (Dante Quartet)
I think it was George Bernard Shaw who first remarked that Stanford was at his best when he forgot to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2018
GRIEG; STRAUSS Cello Sonatas (Rosen & Walters)
The sonatas performed on this captivating disc by the cellist Marcy Rosen and pianist Susan Walters came from the minds...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2019
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