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A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888

Important cello sonatas arrived in trickles until 1878, Steven Isserlis writes in his detailed and delightfully informative booklet note, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

Les frères Francœur

This album charts the Francoeur family – a French musical dynasty spanning the Baroque to the early Romantic period. First,...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022

Society: Bach; Abel

The excellent booklet notes tell us that there is ‘no extant record’ of what works were specifically performed at the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022

HOLST; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS String Quartets (Tippett Quartet)

Recordings of Vaughan Williams’s two numbered string quartets have never been exactly thick on the ground, so a hearty welcome...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 3 WALTON String Quartet in A minor

What can I say? This is just a fantastic recording. It sounds great, the playing is erudite and courageous, and...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2022

SELAOCOE Where is Home (Hae Ke Kae)

‘Hae Ke Kae’ means ‘Where Is Home?’ in Sesotho, and while Abel Selaocoe’s ancestral home may be in South Africa,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2022

MOZART; TELEMANN 'Canons'

Mozart wrote counterpoint throughout his career, from dutiful fugues while learning his craft to worthy stile antico polyphony in his...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

HEMSI Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble)

Chandos’s ‘Music in Exile’ series featuring the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble continues with this overview of Alberto Hemsi (1898-1975). Of Sephardic...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2022

DVORÁK American Quartet. 8 Waltzes

It’d be a grey day indeed that couldn’t be brightened by Dvořák’s chamber music, and I don’t think it was...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2022

BRITTEN; HAGEN; STRAUSS (Ensemble Allegria)

Although they might have gone under the radar in the UK, Ensemble Allegria have established a status way beyond their...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2022

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