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MOZART 'The Palatine Sonatas', K301-306

The six violin sonatas Mozart composed in Mannheim and Paris during the spring and summer of 1778 don’t often appear...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2022

LECLAIR Violin Sonatas, Book 3; Op 5, Nos. 5-8

It’s strange that there aren’t more recordings of Leclair’s Op 5 Violin Sonatas, given how much they have going for...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2022

KRÜGER Ain’t Nuthin’ But Fairy Dust

Given clubbing’s ubiquity, it’s surprising that there are so few club-culture-themed compositions. An outlier is Richard Baker’s sensuously thrilling The...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2022

DVORÁK; MANSURIAN; MARTIN Piano Trios (Delta Piano Trio)

Previous releases of Taneyev and Borodin (Naxos) and Shostakovich and Auerbach (Odradek) left little doubt as to the Delta Trio’s...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022

DOPPLER; KULHAU Romantic & Virtuoso Music For Flute and Piano

If you’re not an expert on all things flute, the chances are that the names Franz and Karl Doppler and...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2022

CHOPIN Piano Concertos (Emmanuel Despax. Chamber versions)ertos (Emmanuel Despax. Chamber versions)

When the string quintet (two violins, viola, cello, and double bass) versions of the Chopin concertos appear in the antiquarian...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022

BRAHMS; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets

The Dalí Quartet and Olga Kern give a plainspoken account of Brahms’s F minor Quintet, one that’s rather short on...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022

BRAHMS Piano Quintet Op 34. String Quintet Op 111

In 2018 the Pavel Haas Quartet won their sixth Gramophone Award for a recording coupling Dvořák’s Piano Quintet (with Boris...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022

Stockholm Diary

All the composers included on this intriguing and beautiful album hail from cool climes but lived (or spent significant time)...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022

Renewal

Following up on their very well-received debut album ‘In Motion’ (2/21), the United Strings of Europe (formed by students at...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022

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