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DUTILLEUX; HOUGH; RAVEL String Quartets (Takács Quartet)

Shostakovich aside, few post-war string quartets can have made more of an impact on record than Dutilleux’s Ainsi le nuit....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2023

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 (Leonard Elschenbroich)

‘Technological process in some cases has a fruit-like cycle’, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich writes in the booklet note, ‘and we found...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2023

Les nuits de Paris

Imagine uprooting the traditional New Year’s Day concert from Vienna’s Musikverein and transporting it to the Opéra-Comique in Paris. And...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2023

B A ZIMMERMANN 'Recomposed'

Wergo’s long-term Bernd Alois Zimmermann Edition now continues with this ambitious ‘Recomposed’ project, placing six of his own works within...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Piano Quintet. Fantasia on the Old 104th

Top billing on the booklet cover goes to the ambitious Fantasia on the Old 104th, conceived for the same forces...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2023

TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings. Souvenir de Florence, Andante Cantabile (Azkoul)

The Souvenir de Florence and Serenade for Strings are two of Tchaikovsky’s sunniest works and have often been paired on...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2023

MAHLER; SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (van Zweden)

Mahler’s impact on those that followed him was greater than he would ever know. For Shostakovich it was the irony,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2023

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade (Vänskä)

The first release by Curtis Studio, a new label founded by the Curtis Institute of Music, brings a warm and...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2023

REINECKE ‘The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 85’ (Simon Callaghan)

I last encountered Simon Callaghan in Vol 76 of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series playing Rheinberger and Scholz (8/18). This...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023

PRICE Songs of the Oak (Jeter)

This third instalment in Naxos’s survey of Florence Price’s orchestral music presents four major works. The two concert overtures might...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2023

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