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LABORDE Extraits des Trois Recueils de Chansons

Jean Benjamin de La Borde (1734 94) – France’s own Charles Burney – composed three beguiling collections of accompanied songs...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2015

JANÁČEK; MARTINŮ String Quartets

Janáček’s two string quartets are now classics, lending themselves to different interpretations, of which these by the admirable Doric Quartet...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2015

Red Priest: Handel in the Wind

'This is a disc that arguably should never have been made.’ That’s Red Priest themselves writing in the booklet accompanying...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2015

GRIEG Cello Sonata GRAINGER Scandinavian Suite

Grieg’s 1882/83 Cello Sonata was premiered by the composer accompanying Friedrich Grützmacher (the cellist who made up Boccherini concertos). It...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2015

GORTON Orfordness. Fosdyke Wash

Now in his mid-thirties, David Gorton is a composer working in the more radical domain of post-war British music. This...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015

ENESCU; PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonatas

Laura Buruiana and Alexandra Silocea, who both come from Romania, make a formidable duo, playing with immense assurance, verve and...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (arr Chamber Ensemble)

Trevor Pinnock and the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble – who have recorded symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner in...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

MACMILLAN; MAXWELL DAVIES Piano Trios

After their splendid Mendelssohn recording (11/14), the Gould Trio turn to a very different programme. The MacMillan works are strongly...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015

JS BACH Musical Offering

The Ricercar Consort’s recording activities in recent years have focused mainly on sacred music for voices and instruments, so it...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015

JS BACH; CPE BACH Sonatas for viola da gamba

Should it always be a viola da gamba of six or seven gut and metal wound strings, tuned in fourths...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2015

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