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JS BACH Bach from Ingolstadt (Franz Hauk)

If you like your Bach bold and sturdy then the two opening tracks of this new album from the heart...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Alexandra Papastefanou)

The word ‘natural’ is such a cliché, yet it constantly comes to mind over the course of Alexandra Papastefanou’s Goldberg...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2021

JS BACH 6 Suites (Myriam Rignol)

The booklet note expends ink on the historical justifications for playing Bach’s Cello Suites on the viola da gamba, but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2021

Linos Piano Trio: Stolen Music

As an ensemble on a mission, the Linos Piano Trio are not so much stealing the repertoire of others as...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021

Soundmaps: Extended Realities (Valeria Zorina)

As concepts for string recitals go, scordatura – the abnormal tuning of a string instrument in order to obtain special...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2021

Nature and the Imagination (Pelléas Ensemble)

It was after hearing Saint-Saëns’s Septet, whose unusual casting includes a trumpet, that Debussy had the notion of writing a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021

Con Arte e Maestria: Virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque

Oliver Webber deserves a knighthood for services to period violin performance. He is a fount of historical knowledge and an...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2021

British Oboe Quintets (Nicholas Daniel. Doric String Quartet)

The chamber combination of oboe and string quartet would seem to lend itself ideally to the pastoral image of British...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2021

ROTA Chamber Music

In addition to his many film scores, Nino Rota also composed numerous concert and stage works as well as working...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021

MYASKOVSKY Cello Sonatas RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Serenade

That Myaskovsky mavens have been denied an incontrovertibly top-notch coupling of these pieces arguably no longer matters. We have many...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2021

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