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KREČIČ Architexture’ : Music for strings

When new music can’t be understood without the album notes, either the idiom is extremely foreign or the composer’s intentions...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015

MOZART; IVES; VERDI String Quartets

The Schumann Quartet – not named after Robert but after the three brothers who are its violinists and cellist –...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015

HINDEMITH Sonatas for Horn, Cello, Trombone, Violin and Trumoet

If there is a Cinderella among Hindemith’s three dozen(ish) sonatas, it’s not that for double bass, tuba, or even the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015

HENDERICKX Disappearing in Light

Breathy notes on shakuhachi answered by an eerily floating mezzo-soprano vocalise, punctuated by splashes of sounds on temple gongs and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2015

HAYDN; HUMMEL Piano Trios

Not always Haydn of good cheer. There was an arcane side; and, from his letters to Marianne von Genzinger, a...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2015

GNATTALI Alma brasiliera

The music of the hugely prolific Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger Radamés Gnattali (1906 88) is so fluent and attractive...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2015

ERKOREKA Chamber Music

The generally vague booklet-notes accompanying this disc contain a revealing quote. Erkoreka’s teacher Michael Finnissy told his student that art...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2015

BONIS; FAURÉ Piano Quartets

Here’s an enterprising programme from Quatuor Giardini. The marketplace is quite crowded where Fauré’s First Piano Quartet is concerned. While...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015

ZEMLINSKY; BLOCH; KORNGOLD Piano Trios

Strange engineering dogs these performances. Flanking the piano in the middle are the strings, each at an extreme end; and...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2015

ANTOINE Quartet. Violin Sonata

Known by Vincent d’Indy as ‘the soldier musician’ because so much of his music was written during the First World...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2015

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