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STANFORD Complete works for Violin and Piano

There have been, in the last 20 years or so, a number of recordings of Stanford’s music for violin and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014

CPE BACH Magnificat

The Heilig (ie Sanctus) for double choir turns up on this Harmonia Mundi recording that recreates part of a Hamburg...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014

SCHUBERT String Quintet

Another month, another Schubert C major Quintet. For any new version to make its mark it has to be pretty...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014

Alvin Lucier: No Ideas But in Things

Standing by a piano, holding a teapot – and with an impish glint in his eye that is unmistakably reminiscent...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2014

KORNGOLD Sextet for Strings. Suite

It is an inspired idea to couple these two contrasting works, separated as they were by momentous events. Korngold’s Sextet...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2014

KORNGOLD Piano Trio SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

This must be a unique coupling. Schoenberg’s irrefutable masterpiece continues to prosper in the studio: standard recommendations would include the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014

HINDEMITH Sonata for Solo Cello. Works for Cello and Piano

Up until now, Wendy Warner’s programme for Bridge of the essential Hindemith chamber pieces for cello has been by some...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2014

GRIEG Piano Quintet FINNISSY Grieg Quintettsatz

Michael Finnissy is Mr Complexity, whose crunchy five-hour piano cycle The History of Photography in Sound was reviewed in Gramophone’s...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2014

COUPERIN Les Nations REBEL Les Caracteres de la danse

The superb early-18th-century chamber music of François Couperin and Jean-Féry Rebel – and a number of their French contemporaries –...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2014

STRAVINSKY Petrushka BRAHMS 16 Waltzes PIAZZOLLA 4 Tangos

Pardon the cliché, but here’s a husband-and-wife piano duo who make beautiful music together. In Stravinsky’s duet reduction of Petrushka,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2014

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