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ARNOLD Concerto for Two Violins and Strings ATTERBURG Suite

The Mainz Virtuosi are a multinational string ensemble comprising fellow students at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz. As they...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2014

VÉGH String Quartets

It’s most pleasant to meet an unknown composer from the past. János Végh (1845-1918) came from an aristocratic family and...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2014

Sarasate: Transcriptions and Arrangements

This is the eighth disc of Sarasate that the violinist Tianwa Yang has recorded for Naxos. It has the great...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2014

RAGNARSSON Vocal and Chamber Works

Hjálmar Helgi Ragnarsson is one of the leading Icelandic composers of the middle generation, his first compositions dating from the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

PIERNÉ Piano Quintet VIERNE String Quartet

Brahms, Dvořák, Fauré, Franck, Schubert, Schumann…and perhaps Taneyev. The list of indisputably great Romantic piano quintets may be a shortish...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014

PICKARD String Quartets Nos 1 & 5

Here’s further proof that John Pickard (b1962) is one of the most edifying and accomplished composers around. Toccata Classics gives...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2014

LEIFS Quartets Nos 1 - 3

When the Yggsdrasil Quartet’s pioneering disc of Jón Leifs’s three string quartets was released by BIS in 1995, I gave...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

B LANG Monadologie XII

Bernhard Lang’s title might lead you to think classic-period modernism but Monadologie XII turns out to be a composer’s re...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2014

KREISLER Music for Violin

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), one of the most beloved musicians of the last century, is sui generis. In an 80th-birthday tribute...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014

HINDEMITH Viola Sonatas

Most viola players separate Hindemith’s sonatas with piano on disc from the unaccompanied works. Even Kim Kashkashian, whose ECM twofer...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

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