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BLISS; FERGUSON; HOLLOWAY Octets & Clarinet Quintet

The larger chamber combinations of wind and strings – one thinks of Beethoven’s Septet, Schubert’s Octet and the nonets of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2024

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Antje Weithaas)

I found much to admire in the first instalment of Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon’s survey of the Beethoven violin...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 1 (Doric String Quartet)

The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024

BEETHOVEN String Quartets opp 74 & 130

The six Op 18 Quartets now under their belts, the Chiaroscuro Quartet have chosen for the next instalment of their...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024

JS BACH Viola da Gamba Sonatas

Yet another album of Bach’s sonatas for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord, I hear you sigh. Yet gambist Andrea...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2024

United Strings of Europe: through the night

Just three years have passed since the United Strings of Europe released their first recording (2/21), but the London-based group...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024

Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems

Name 15 French symphonic poems. Assuming Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre and Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice head your list, where next? After...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2024

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Herreweghe)

These interpretations are not markedly different from Herreweghe’s period-instrument recording with the Champs-Élysées Orchestra on his first Schumann symphony cycle....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024

SCHMIDT Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Berman)

Although still rarely encountered in the concert hall, Franz Schmidt’s symphonies are increasingly well represented on record, this being at...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Noseda)

Not quite 20 years since the LSO recorded its last Prokofiev symphony cycle in a concentrated burst of performances at...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2024

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