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SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 10 & 15 (Jubilee Quartet)

For the Jubilee’s leader Tereza Privratska, Schubert’s last quartet is ‘filled with the emotions of a dying man expressing so...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2023

LOCKE The Little Consort

An intriguing recording: on first playing, I found this album difficult to get into, an experience that felt as if...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2023

KANER Chamber Music

Matthew Kaner (b1986) studied music at King’s College London before moving on to postgraduate studies with Julian Anderson at the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

IVANSCHIZ Chamber Music at the Abbey of Lambach

Sadly, there is very little to recommend here. Violinist Gunar Letzbor and Ars Antiqua Austria bring us chamber music by...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2023

GRIEG; KÖRVITS; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Duo Gazzana)

This feels – to use a footballing analogy – like an album of two halves. In the first, we have...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

DELIUS; SMYTH String Quartets

Among Delius’s earliest works from the late 1880s, when he was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory, was a String...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2023

CILEA Adriana Lecouvreur (Harding)

Theatre as artifice is the dominant idea behind Frederic Wake-Walker’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur – appropriately enough, perhaps, for an...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2023

A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams

Roderick Williams is one of Britain’s finest exponents of English song, yet one forgets that he is also a composer...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2023

PASCOE Secular Requiem

Since graduating from the University of Bristol (where he studied composition with Derek Bourgeois), Russell Pascoe (b1959) has made a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2023

MONTEVERDI Madrigals Book 7

Over some 30 years Rinaldo Alessandrini has recorded and re-recorded Monteverdi’s madrigals, combining and colliding them every which way. Most...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2023

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