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Painted Light: Music for String Quartet

Perceptions of colour connect each of the works on the Solem Quartet’s new album. The musical styles range from Impressionism...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024

Fathers & Daughters

Its title may conjure Turgenevian imagery but ‘Fathers and Daughters’ celebrates the close familial and professional ties between these four...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024

REGER; SENFTER Clarinet Quintets

Having completed their traversal of Mozart’s string quartets, then recently issued an insightful coupling of piano quintets by Franck and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024

RAVEL; SCHUMANN String Quartets (Leonkoro Quartet)

The Leonkoro (Esperanto: ‘Lionheart’) Quartet make their debut album following a string of competition wins. As I remarked in a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024

MÜLLER-HARTMANN Chamber Works

The ‘Music in Exile’ series led by the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble has turned up several worthwhile discoveries among those Jewish...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024

MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps MURAIL Stalag VIIIa

No 20th-century composition rises more determinedly above earthly trials and tribulations than the quartet for violin, cello, clarinet and piano...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024

MADERNA Serenata per un satellite. Venetian Journal

Any mid-20th-century composer as upfront and exuberant in his embrace of modernist and avant-garde techniques as Bruno Maderna was bound...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024

HAYDN Baryton Trios Vol 2

Haydn’s output for the baryton is one of those facets of his artistry that is more known about than it...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024

Handel at Home Vol 2: Total Eclipse

It’s one thing to say that you’re recording a programme of music fit for an 18th-century evening’s domestic music-making. It’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024

BOCCHERINI String Quintets

The Karski Quartet, founded in Belgium in 2018, take their name from Jan Karski, a Second World War resistance fighter,...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2024

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