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KARNAVIČIUS String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 (Vilnius String Quartet)

Jurgis Karnavičius’s work is newly rediscovered in his native Lithuania, though his historical importance has always been clear. Born in...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2021

HINDEMITH Wind Sonatas (Les Vents Français)

Previous releases by Les Vents Français have tended to concentrate on ensemble pieces, trios, quintets and so on, with occasional...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2021

DVORÁK Spirit of Bohemia (Fine Arts Quartet)

The Fine Arts Quartet, founded back in 1946, is one of those ensembles that keeps its name while the players...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2021

BRAHMS Trio, Op 114. Sonatas, Op 120

Given that I encounter Brahms’s Op 120 Sonatas in their alternative viola versions nearly as often as the clarinet originals,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 4, 5 & 7 (Viktoria Mullova)

It’s a mere decade since Viktoria Mullova’s last recorded foray into Beethoven’s violin sonatas (9/10). Then her co-conspirator was Kristian...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2021

Miloš: The Moon and the Forest

In singularity and softness of volume, the classical guitar is the antithesis of the orchestra, yet musicians such as Berlioz...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2021

Journeys: Orchestral Music from Five Continents

Since the Norwegian Radio Orchestra regularly plays at the concert celebrating the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, outgoing chief...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2021

WEBER Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (Ronald Brautigam)

Weber and Brautigam are a very fine match and it seems remarkable that this is the first period-instrument recording of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2021

Bolette Roed: Vivaldi's Seasons

Recorder players haven’t been too poorly served when it comes to concertos by Vivaldi, given that not only did he...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2021

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 4 & 6 (Pappano)

Set down at the Barbican the evening before the UK’s Covid lockdown for concert halls and theatres in March 2020,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2021

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