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Alexei Ogrintchouk: A 20th Century Recital

All five works here are overshadowed by war. Hindemith’s Sonata, although it opens confidently, includes a second movement which has...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2014

SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14 JANÁČEK String Quartet No 1

There seems little to link Schubert’s quartet with Janáček’s except responses to death. In the Schubert, the players shadow the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2014

HOLBORN The Fruit of Love

Antony Holborne’s Pavans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs both Grave, and Light was published in 1599. Described as being...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014

HODGKINSON Onsets

Like many rock musicians who managed to piggyback their radical ideals off a 1970s music industry still prepared to sign...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2014

HINDEMITH Viola Works

Competition is hotting up in Hindemith’s viola sonatas. They have fared better than most of his works in this genre,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2014

FRANZSON The Negotiation of context

A title with a message, a message worth pondering. Negotiating context is what good composers aspire to and what complacent...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2014

JANÁČEK Violin Sonata DVOŘÁK Four Romantic Pieces

Jennifer Pike may only be 24 but she’s already an established figure on the music scene and, together with her...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014

El Sistema at Salzburg

Venezuela’s El Sistema must bring a blush to the cheeks of most governments (especially here in the comparatively well heeled...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014

Australian Guitar Concertos

This collection of guitar concertos largely inspired by Australia’s Top End is as much a tribute to Peter Sculthorpe, who...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2014

Hidden Treasures of Italy

'Hidden Treasures of Italy’ is what the Montreal-based Arion Baroque Orchestra have called this release; and indeed, when the most...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2014

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