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MENDELSSOHN Complete String Quartets, Vol 2 (Quatuor Van Kuijk)

Alpha and the brilliant young Van Kuijk Quartet again steal a march on their CD competitors by offering three Mendelssohn...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2023

HARRISON Chamber Works

Although it has never been forgotten, the music of Pamela Harrison (1915 90) has received few recordings, and those who...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023

GRIEG; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Sonatas (Charlie Siem)

Charlie Siem and Itamar Golan team up for a commanding, grippingly communicative rendering of Vaughan Williams’s meaty and technically challenging...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023

GÍSLADÓTTIR VÍDDIR. SILVA

Bára Gísladóttir is emerging as a major figure on the contemporary music scenes in Denmark (where she lives) and Iceland...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2023

BUSCH Chamber Works

The prospect of Adolf Busch writing quartets is an enticing one for any listener curious to hear inside the mind...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2023

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Ning Feng)

I can imagine some listeners finding these interpretations of the Brahms violin sonatas a bit too subdued, although I find...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2023

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas (Midori)

Conversationalist Beethoven, this – meaning that two very different voices (Midori, gentle; Thibaudet, assertive) bring their individual qualities to each...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos 21&24 (Robert Levin) Piano Concerto No 23 (Emelyanychev)

Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music pick up their Mozart piano concerto cycle where they left off quarter...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

Neeme Järvi in Concert

This is a marvellous recording. It’s not uncommon for conductors as distinguished as Neeme Järvi (who turned 85 last year)...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023

Eldbjørg Hemsing: Arctic

After a string of well-received albums for BIS (5/18, 12/18, 4/19, 6/20), star violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing moved to Sony in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023

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