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Daniel Pioro: Saint Boy

Daniel Pioro is currently Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre, where last October I saw him give the coruscating...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2023

Inbal Segev: 20 for 2020

The past year has seen a fair number of projects that emerged as result of or were inspired by the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

SHAW The Wheel

Several themes (musical and extramusical) interact and overlap on this fascinating album of solo and chamber compositions by Caroline Shaw,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2023

SCHUBERT Piano Trio No 1. Trout Quintet

Enthusiasm, affection and style were three of the attributes of the Busch Trio’s playing identified by Richard Bratby when he...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

REED String Quartets Nos 4 & 5 (Cirrus Quartet)

This is not the first modern recording dedicated to ‘Elgar’s violinist’, WH (‘Billy’) Reed: Dutton issued a collection of violin-and-piano...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2023

RACHMANINOV Piano Trios. Cello Sonata

This trio of Russian musicians certainly have this music flowing through their veins, but is that enough in a crowded...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023

MOZART The Prussian Quartets (Chiaroscuro Quartet)

It’s incredible to think that Mozart’s three ‘Prussian’ Quartets – his final statements in the genre, written for amateur cellist...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2023

MOZART; SCHUMANN; BRUCH; STRAVINSKY Clarinet Trios

What a little miracle Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio (1786) is: just under 20 minutes of his finest music for his three...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

MARAIS Folies d'Espagne. La Rêveuse

I adore this recording. Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud bring us the music of Marin Marais – on cello and...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2023

LOURIÉ Chamber and Instrumental Music, Vol 1: Works with Wind Instruments

Arthur Lourié (1891-1966) is an endlessly fascinating composer. Like Stravinsky, whose friend (and in some ways mentor) he was, his...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2023

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