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HAYDN String Quartets Opp 42, 77. Seven Last Words

The London Haydn Quartet reaches the end of its period-instrument Hyperion Haydn cycle: well, almost – they still have to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2023

Bracing Change 2

Three string quartets by three composers performed by three different groups. In this sense, ‘Bracing Change 2’ is no different...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2023

GASSMANN Oboe Quartets and Quintets GYROWETZ Flute Quartets

’Twas on a Monday morning the gasman came to call’, sang Flanders & Swann. Many years ago, I chose Florian...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2023

JS BACH Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (Adrian Butterfield)

Harpsichordist Silas Wollston opens the Sonata in B minor, BWV1014, with particular evocation (a make or break moment, really, when...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023

Virtuosity and Grace. Sonatas For Viola da Gamba

Surely this is the first recording devoted solely to the works for viola da gamba and keyboard by Carl Philipp...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2023

AUERBACH 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano (Christine Bernsted)

The Soviet-born Austrian-American novelist, poet, composer, conductor and concert pianist Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for violin and piano were completed...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2023

Atmospheriques Vol 1

All but one of the works on this new album date from the past 10 years, not that you would...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto LALO Symphonie Espagnole (Ellinor D’Melon)

Tchaikovsky was inspired to write his Violin Concerto after playing through Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole with Yosif Kotek in March...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2023

SURINACH Acrobats of God

Gil Rose has a special knack for finding music that has somehow slipped through the cracks. Here, he gives us...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2023

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1 & 4 (Gardner)

Edward Gardner approaches the end of his Schubert cycle – only the Ninth to go – with a coupling of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2023

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