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Review of Live from the Concertgebouw: Piano trios by Shostakovich and Silvestrov

Live from the Concertgebouw: Piano trios by Shostakovich and Silvestrov

So far as the Shostakovich Trios are concerned, Korobeinikov, Gluzman and Moser enter a well-populated field but still manage to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024

Review of The Passenger: Piano Trios by Weinberg & Schubert

The Passenger: Piano Trios by Weinberg & Schubert

As pairings of composers go, there is a lot to commend Schubert and Weinberg. Apart from Schubert being one of...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2024

Review of PROKOFIEV 'Prokofiev Milestones Vol 1'

PROKOFIEV 'Prokofiev Milestones Vol 1'

This attractive CD is a fresh look at some of Prokofiev’s chamber repertoire, although I wondered whether ‘milestones’ is the...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 03/2024

Review of LOCKE Consorts Flat and Sharp

LOCKE Consorts Flat and Sharp

This disc completes the suites ‘for My Cousin Kemble’ begun on Phantasm’s previous Matthew Locke recording (11/18) and twins them...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2024

Review of LEFANU 'The Path Above the Dunes'

LEFANU 'The Path Above the Dunes'

Métier continues its welcome coverage of Nicola LeFanu with this volume of four works spanning some 46 years of her...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2024

Review of Haydn All-Stars

Haydn All-Stars

Crisp, brightly sharp-edged and powerful, vibrato-less and pleasantly dry, the opening chord of Haydn’s Piano Trio in E minor, HobXV:12,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024

Review of GERNSHEIM String Quartets Vol 2

GERNSHEIM String Quartets Vol 2

If you were seeking to dispel the image of Gernsheim as an epigone of Brahms and a lesser-known contemporary of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2024

Review of ENESCU Piano Quartet No 1 FAURÉ Piano Quartet No 1

ENESCU Piano Quartet No 1 FAURÉ Piano Quartet No 1

In 2022 Naxos released a recording of Enescu’s 1909 Piano Quartet No 1 by an ensemble led by pianist Josu...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2024

Review of Dall'Abaco and the Art of Variation

Dall'Abaco and the Art of Variation

‘The Joy of Cellos’ would be an appropriate subtitle for this elegant, playful, infectious recital curated by Elinor Frey. The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2024

Review of CORELLI; QUENTIN Flute Sonatas (Anna Besson)

CORELLI; QUENTIN Flute Sonatas (Anna Besson)

You’d have to have a heart of stone not to be stopped in your tracks at the outset of this...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024

 

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