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LECLAIR; SENAILLE Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord

Although only one of the four sonatas for violin and continuo by Jean-Baptiste Senaillé offered here is claimed as a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2021

LANGGAARD Music of the Abyss

Even in his twenties – his acclaimed Symphony No 1 already introduced to the world by the Berlin Philharmonic –...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2021

The Viennese Viola

Back in August 2019, when nobody thought twice about filling an intimate performance space to capacity, I attended a very...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2021

BRUCH String Quintets. Octet

Who would have thought, back in the 1990s, that we would one day have competing recordings of Bruch’s string quintets...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2021

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas. Liebeslieder (Emmanuelle Bertrand)

This disc’s title led me to expect cello and-piano arrangements of the Liebeslieder Waltzes, and my heart leapt at the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas, Vol 2 (Michael Foyle)

The Scottish-Estonian duo of Michael Foyle and Maksim Štšura swiftly follow up their first volume of Beethoven’s violin sonatas (4/21)...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2021

Presteigne Premieres: New Music for String Orchestra

If not the highest-profile conductor of his generation, George Vass has an enviable record in commissioning and premiering music by...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021

Emmanuel Pahud: Mozart & Flute in Paris

It would be all too easy, from a cursory glance at the bolded title alone, to assume that Emmanuel Pahud’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2021

Rick Stotijn: Back To StockHome

Rick Stotijn has done sterling work persuading treble-clef dwellers that double bass albums can sing and dance, but there’s a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2021

YE Winter

BIS’s second album devoted to the music of Chinese composer Xiaogang Ye (b1955) includes two works from the early part...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021

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