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Camille El Bacha: Lumen

More and more classically trained pianists are embracing improvisation and composition, including Camille El Bacha, whose solo piano release ‘Lumen’...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023

Obscurus

Lucy Humphris’s debut album (her only previous recording – as far as – I can determine – being Cecilia McDowall’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023

Impressions d'enfance

Franco-Romanian violinist Sarah Nemtanu, leader of the Orchestre National de France as well as a fine soloist in her own...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023

Golden Oldies: More Favourite Encores (Brodsky Quartet)

Every string quartetter, amateur or pro, knows the problem of finding appropriate encore pieces, and every quartet has its own...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2023

WALTER String Quartet. Piano Quintet

‘Dissonance wants to become consonance, it longs to be undone’, according to Bruno Walter, and in his own music it...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023

In Celebration: The Piano Trios of Stanley Silverman

Guitarist/composer Stanley Silverman (b1938) has had a remarkable career. A student of Milhaud and Leon Kirchner, he was highly in...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023

SAINT-SAËNS Violin Works (Cecilia Zilliacus)

The word here is ‘fearless’. You may not have expected to see the words fearless and Saint-Saëns in the same...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 05/2023

REICH The String Quartets (Mivos Quartet)

Tradition and innovation have always forged strong alliances in Steve Reich’s music, and his three string quartets illustrate this perhaps...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2023

POULENC Sextuor. Trio. Abade. Suite Francaise

Members of the redoubtable Quintette Moraguès recorded a good deal in the first decade of the present century. Michel Moraguès’s...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2023

HAYDN; LEITH 'Big House'

The Ruisi Quartet waited 10 years before making their debut recording. When they finally got around to it, at a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2023

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