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Violins of Hope: Heggie, Schubert & Mendelssohn

The stars of this programme are the instruments themselves, all of which come from the Violins of Hope project. Originally...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021

Music From Proust's Salons

Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih take Proust as the starting point for their new themed album. Given that music itself...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2021

Entente Musicale: Music for Violin and Piano (Clare Howick)

Neither Bradford-born, French-domiciled Frederick Delius’s posthumous Violin Sonata in B of 1892 nor John Ireland’s First Violin Sonata of 1909...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2021

Il Cannone - Francesca Dego plays Paganini's violin

It’s a rare violinist who gets the chance to perform on Paganini’s favourite violin, the 1743 Guarneri del Gesù he...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2021

Charlie Siem & Itamar Golan: Between the Clouds

Back in the day, older readers might recall, some of us made compilation cassettes of favourite music to impress/woo/entertain loved...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021

TELEMANN 'Polonoise' (Holland Baroque)

What is so hip about HIP? When Purcell is played in a pub or Handel is remixed by a DJ...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2021

STRAUSS Chamber works (Oculi Ensemble)

This debut recording from the Oculi Ensemble features the two extremities of Richard Strauss’s creative life, from his days as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2021

MOZART String Quartets Vol 3 (Armida Quartet)

The Armida Quartet’s Mozart cycle operates both as an artistic endeavour and as a musicological one. The players are acting...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2021

LEFANU; MACONCHY; SWAYNE 'Relationships'

The title of this Resonus release is a fair summation of those relationships not only between the composers and artists...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2021

Belle Époque 1886

If you gleaned your musical education from Penguin paperbacks, you probably can’t – even now – hear Franck’s Violin Sonata...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2021

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