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REGER Complete Piano Quartets

Max Reger’s Piano Quartet Op 113 launches itself with a compositional exclamation mark, a wantonly illegal chromatic sidestep that a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

SZYMAŃSKI Pieces for String Quartet

The Royal String Quartet have made a good reputation in a fairly wide repertory, including their support of modern composers...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2015

HVOSLEF Chamber Works

Now in his mid-seventies, Ketil Hvoslef has long been a respected presence on the contemporary music scene and a highly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2015

FELDMAN For Bunita Marcos. Why Pattern?

Often I wonder whether the unstoppable rise of Morton Feldman would have been possible without the CD. Pieces that run...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

FAURÉ; SAINT-SAËNS; d'INDY Piano Trios

This highly accomplished group, based in New York, takes its name from the legendary pianist Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993). Pianist Rieko...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2015

BRAHMS String Sextets 1 & 2

It makes an ideal coupling to have Brahms’s String Sextets, both charming works, on a single disc. It is striking...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos 1 & 7

Instruments are carefully balanced, sound is good. But this recording, originally in SACD format, would audibly have been a lot...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2015

BARTÓK Complete Music for Two Pianos

The oom pah figuration that launches Bartók’s Suite, Op 4 – which he arranged for two pianos in 1941 from...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

JS BACH Arrangements for Piano Duo

For their third Steinway & Sons release, the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo dedicate their uncanny ensemble prowess and canny...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015

Roberto Alagna: My Life is an Opera

A cynic might look at Roberto Alagna’s new disc, ‘My Life is an Opera’, and think, ‘At least he admits...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015

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