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Coco: Origins

Those with eyes and ears fixed on the BBC Young Musician competition will know that in 2020 the strings final...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022

Fractales

Ensemble Fractales are a specialist new music chamber group comprising flautist Renata Kambarova, clarinettist Benjamin Maneyrol, violinist (and occasional viola...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

English Music for Viola and Piano (Sarah-Jane Bradley)

The viola has been the source of inspiration behind a good deal of chamber music written by 20th-century British composers...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH; WEINBERG Piano Trios. Songs

The relationship between Shostakovich and Weinberg has often been discussed over recent years, this collection throwing the reciprocal nature of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022

SCHUBERT Violin Sonata. Rondo. Fantasie (Viktoria Mullova)

Schubert’s three mature works for violin and piano make an ideal disc-length programme, the Duo Sonata (1817) expanding on the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2022

PAUS 'Cabin Fever'

This enterprising programme of music by Marcus Paus (b1979) is adroitly presented. Disc 1 comprises a set of (to use...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

MACRAE 'Ursa Minor' Chamber Music

This is an intelligently programmed album of intelligently constructed, sonically well-imagined music by one of Scotland’s most innovative composers, Stuart...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

LABOR Clarinet Trio. Cello Sonata No. 2

The Bohemian-born musician Josef Labor (1842-1924), blind from the age of three, lived long enough to record. A surviving portion...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022

CHOPIN; POULENC 'Bleu' Cello Sonatas

This programme was designed, we’re told in the booklet note, to explore the relationship between the colour blue and the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18 Nos 4-6 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)

A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2022

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