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JS BACH Keyboard Partitas Nos 1 & 2. English Suite No 3

Rudolf Buchbinder offers Bach-playing of confidence and intelligence, unafraid to ornament and keen to point up the drama of the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015

New Irish Music

The Chatham Saxophone Quartet has certainly advanced the cause of Irish new music for its medium with this recital which,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2015

Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2014

Even more than some years’ instalments, Lugano 2014 is a celebration not just of the inimitable Argentinian but also of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015

British Works for Cello and Piano

In bringing together four highly contrasting British composers of the later 20th century, this vibrant recording, with splendid playing by...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2015

20th-Century Women Composers

Rebecca Clarke, Lili Boulanger and Amy Beach were pioneers at a time when musical careers for women were limited away...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2015

RUDORFF Chamber Music

There is so much music from the 19th century that remains forgotten or under-performed. Whenever a relatively unfamiliar name heaves...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015

ONSLOW String Quartets

Born in Clermont-Ferrand of Anglo-French parentage (his father was a maverick MP who fled England to avoid prosecution, his mother...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2015

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 1 & 4

Since their Zemlinsky recordings (Naxos, 10/13, 9/14), the Escher Quartet has acquired a new second violinist: Aaron Boyd. With Mendelssohn,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015

MCGUIRE Entangled Fortunes

Economic theory doesn’t inspire great music. However, the title-work of this wonderful collection of chamber music by the Scottish composer...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2015

MCLEOD Moments in TIme

A perennial ‘dark horse’ among contemporary composers, Aberdeen-born John McLeod goes into his ninth decade with his profile arguably at...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2015

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