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KUHLAU Piano Quartets 1 & 2

Friedrich Daniel Rudolph Kuhlau (1786-1832): a good subject for a pub quiz. Can you name a one-eyed composer? Who, besides...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

HUMMEL Piano Trios Nos 1, 4 & 5

If your musical tastes err towards the sunny, optimistic and playful rather than the heavyweight, gloomy and probing, let me...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

GRIEG; HOUGH; MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas

Steven Isserlis is a past master when it comes to matching his pianists to repertoire: Robert Levin in Beethoven, Dénes...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015

ERNST The Virtuoso Violin

It remains puzzling why so comparatively few big-name fiddle players include any Ernst in their repertoire. This latest addition to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

DVOŘÁK String Quartets

Interesting the different available approaches to Op 106, among them the Prague Quartet, alert, vibrant, very full-on, The Lindsays and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015

American Chamber Music: Herrmann, Gershwin, Waxman & Copland

Bernard Herrmann was not satisfied with being a film composer of genius: he wanted to conquer the concert hall too,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 07/2015

SCHULHOFF; D'INDY; BRIDGE String Sextets

Ensemble-in-residence at Belgium’s Cultureel Centrum Maasmechelen, the Parnassus Akademie was founded by cellist Michael Gross, best known for his work...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2015

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN; MAHLER Quartets

This album comes from a pair of live recitals given at Alice Tully Hall in March. The three piano quartets...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015

BRAHMS Clarinet Sonatas

‘Placid and melodious’ is how The Record Guide (1951/55) described these clarinet sonatas, the verdict of placidity contradicted by many...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2015

BOULEZ Dialogue de L'Ombre Double

As Jorrit Tamminga amusingly recounts in his booklet-note, it was a chance encounter with Boulez that led to his musical...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2015

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