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Arditti Quartet: Pandora's Box

Rebecca Saunders’s Fletch (2012) is the work of a composer who knows very well, probably too well, how to turn...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

Sirena Recorder Quartet: Now and Then

In their music-making, ‘Sirena pass seamlessly between different eras and musical styles,’ suggests Matti Eden’s note with this CD. The...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2015

Ensemble Contraste: Midsummer Phantasy

The Ensemble Contraste here offer an illuminating sequence of pieces for piano quartet, with two of Purcell’s magnificent Fantazias arranged...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015

Fantasia: British and Finnish Piano Trios

At first glance, this might seem a bizarre programme, until one appreciates the make-up of The Backman Trio, comprising Finnish...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015

ZEMLINSKY Complete String Quartets

‘Zemlinsky: Complete String Quartets’ is a slightly different deal to Chandos’s last packaging of similar repertoire, in performances by the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015

WASSENAER Six Concerti armonici

As Roy Goodman’s Brandenburg Consort and others have proved in the past, six Concerti armonici published anonymously at The Hague...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015

TELEMANN Trios and Quartets

La Rêveuse have hitherto recorded 17th-century music featuring viols, such as Locke, Purcell and Henry Lawes, but now they turn...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015

SUK Complete Works for String Quartet

We do not hear enough Josef Suk. That thought strikes me whenever the rare opportunities arise to listen to the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015

STRAVINSKY Divertimento SZYMANOWSKI Mythes. 3 Caprices

Szymanowski’s pieces are likely to be less well known to collectors than Stravinsky’s but they are attractive, inventive and subtle,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2015

STEEN-ANDERSEN Black Box Music

Simon Steen-Andersen (b1976) is nothing if not referential in his concern to concretise his musical concerns, as the two works...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2015

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