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IYER Mutations

Vijay Iyer is the newly installed Franklin D and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard. His background is...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

HAYDN String Quartets Opp 76 No 1; 50 No 1 & 77 No 1

As recently as the March issue I was pondering the thought processes involved in choosing a 60-plus-minute recital of Haydn’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2014

GAUBERT Works for Violin, Cello

The booklet-note by no means downplays the promise of this disc. ‘One will discover with stupefaction an authentic masterpiece,’ it...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014

FELDMAN For Philip Guston

If you consider Morton Feldman to be a challenging listen then take it from me, you don’t know the half...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2014

ESPOSITO Violin and Cello Sonatas

Champs Hill Records’ exploration of chamber music byways continues apace, alighting here on four uncomplicated and rather pretty sonatas by...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

ENESCU Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Rarely can two works that share the one opus number have hailed from such different musical worlds, in the case...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014

ELGAR Music for Powick Asylum

For all Elgar Liebhaber, those crucial years of his autodidactic apprenticeship in Worcester seem endlessly intriguing, particularly in how he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2014

Elliott Carter: 103rd Birthday Concert

Eight decades after he completed his first acknowledged composition – a song he called ‘My love is in a light...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2014

BRAHMS. SCHUMANN. REINECKE Chamber Works with Horn

There are (in my view) two contributions to the horn repertory that stand out above all others: Mozart’s four captivating...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2014

BERTEAU Sonatas and Airs for Solo Cello

Martin Berteau (1708 71) gave up the great French tradition of bass viol-playing in favour of the cello after hearing...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

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