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BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos. 7 & 10 (James Ehnes)

It’s been said before but it’s worth restating: Beethoven described both of the works on this album as sonatas for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021

Emmanuel Pahud: Beethoven

Beethoven’s output of chamber music foregrounding the flute is early and not extensive, so flautists understandably appropriate arrangements of works...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021

BEACH; CLARKE; IVES Piano Trios (Gould Piano Trio)

A welcome release from The Gould Piano Trio, now into its third decade, whose repertoire stretches right across this medium....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2021

Verklärte Nacht: Schoenberg, Fried, Lehár, Korngold

Hard as it may be in 2021 to read past the sticky paternalism of Richard Dehmel’s best-known poem, early 20th-century...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2021

New Year's Concert 2021

There can have been no stranger occasion in the New Year’s Concert’s 80-year history than this: the Vienna Philharmonic playing...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2021

United Strings of Europe: in motion

This superbly played and vividly engineered release, featuring works from three continents and four different centuries, is the debut album...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021

English Music for Strings: Britten, Bliss, Bridge, Berkeley

John Wilson’s reverence for Sir John Barbirolli’s iconic disc of ‘English String Music’ with the now reborn Sinfonia of London...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2021

VLADIGEROV Orchestral Works Vol 1

Hardly a prophet without honour in his own country, Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1979) remains little heard outside Bulgaria, despite building a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2021

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Job. Songs of Travel (Elder)

It’s always a treat to encounter a really fine performance of Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel in their alternative orchestral...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2021

VASKS Viatore. Distant Light. Voices

The masks and social distancing evident from the booklet photos tell you this recording was made since March even before...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2021

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