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Cellophony: Vibrez!

Cellophony are a talented octet of young British cellists who for their second CD have put together a well-balanced programme...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2014

Through the Looking Glass

Transcription is an art easily taken for granted in post-war music, making the inventiveness of a group such as Alpha...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014

The Proud Bassoon

Peter Whelan is striving zealously to explode the preconceptions the bassoon is subjected to. This programme of 18th-century music –...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

Friends of the Lute

A fictitious letter excerpted in the booklet-notes to this attractive release paints a scene in which WF Bach ‘brings about...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2014

20th Century Wind Quintets

The perky dialogue between oboe and bassoon in André Jolivet’s Sonatine of 1963, while falling outside the general wind-quintet orbit...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2014

Duos Duette Duos

The duo for violin and viola, as perfected in Mozart’s two examples, is a particularly satisfying form. The instruments are...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2014

BERKELEY Clarion Call FERGUSON Octet WOOD Septet

This enterprising programme succeeds through the strength of its contrasts. The opening, bright astringency of Michael Berkeley’s Clarion Call and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2014

Ciaccona: Works for Harpsichord

In a few works on this fascinating recording, one can hear perhaps a few faint echoes of the rollicking and...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2014

A piacere: Music for viola da gamba

With origins in the music of Moorish Spain, German chamber music, Italian courtly life and even early flamenco, the viola...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2014

An Amadeus Affair

(Greg) Anderson and (Elizabeth Joy) Roe, a thirty-something American piano duo, are not prone to self-deprecation. They are apparently ‘revolutionizing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014

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