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MONTANARI; MOSSI 'Golden Strings': Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

It’s always a good sign when a recording’s first notes leap so vibrantly out of the stereo that all the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2023

IVIČEVIĆ Scarlet Songs

Two trends have recently emerged among adventurous composers. On the one hand, there are composers presenting aural refuge in nature...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2023

HAYDN Complete Piano Trios, Vol 2 (Trio Gaspard)

Reviewing the first volume of Trio Gaspard’s projected Haydn cycle (9/22), Richard Wigmore praised ‘joyous, imaginative music-making that whets the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023

CHEUNG Music For Film, Sculpture, and Captions

In The Natural Word (2019) for ensemble, Asian-American composer Anthony Cheung explores the rum idea of creating musical illustrations of...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2023

BOYLE; IRELAND; MOERAN; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS String Quartets

Having already left such a favourable impression with their contribution to Nicky Spence’s distinguished reading of Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2023

BIBER Mystery Sonatas (Amandine Beyer)

Recordings of Biber’s masterpiece have fallen off slightly since I devoted a Gramophone Collection to it (1/17), but this offers...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2023

BERKELEY; BRAHMS; LESHNOFF Horn Trios

I vividly recall being bowled over by my first encounter with Lennox Berkeley’s eloquent Horn Trio through David Pyatt’s superlative...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2023

BERG; SCHOENBERG 'Transfigurations'

Collections of Second Viennese School arrangements have proliferated during recent years, and here Het Collectief combine the tried with the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2023

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Consort – III

What a wonderful surprise. I had assumed that with Vol 2 of their ‘Well-Tempered Consort’ done and dusted, Phantasm had...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023

Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius & Elgar - Music for Strings

This repertoire calls for the warmth and resonance that are hallmarks of the ‘Chandos sound’, and St Augustine’s Kilburn serves...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2023

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