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ERICKSON Complete String Quartets

This is the first music by Robert Erickson (1917 97) that I have encountered (although New World has issued several...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

BOWEN String Quartets Nos 2 & 3. Phantasy

With each recording of York Bowen’s chamber music, it becomes clear just how accomplished a composer he was. The two...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2014

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No 13. Grosse Fuge

Initial brownie points on the issue of repeats, both in the first movement (fairly crucial in my view) and the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014

BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS Piano Trios

Berlioz in his Treatise on Instrumentation and Orchestration describes the clarinet as having ‘a proud quality tempered by noble tenderness,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2014

DEBUSSY La Mer BEAMISH The Seafarer

The success of Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor may have come too late for Debussy to essay a mature...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

ATTERBURG; RANGSTRÖM String Quartets

The compositional history of Atterberg’s quartets is not straightforward. The First, Op 2, was composed in 1907 08 but Atterberg...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

Treasures of the Empfindsamkeit

All too often the extraneous noises involved in both the operation and the recording of a clavichord can be louder...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014

Christina Sandsengen: Shades and Contrasts

There’s no getting around it: Christina Sandsengen is pretty easy on the eye. But the playing on this entry-level recital,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2014

Herbert Schuch: Invocation

This thoughtfully themed recital testifies to the wide terms of reference that the Romanian-born pianist Herbert Schuch has at his...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014

MESSIAEN La Fauvette Passerinette

In 2012, 20 years after Messiaen’s death, Peter Hill discovered among his sketches an 11 minute piece that might have...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2014

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