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RADULESCU Complete Cello Works

Having released editions of Cage and Feldman, Mode is now releasing the complete works of the Romanian spectralist Horațiu Rădulescu...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 02/2020

QUANTZ Flute Concertos (Greg Dikmans)

Johann Joachim Quantz cuts an intriguing figure on the contemporary visibility front. On the one hand, he was renowned in...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2020

GAL Viola Music, Vol 1 (Hanna Pakkala)

‘This sweeping lyricism … fundamental to Gál’s style’ is annotator Richard Marcus’s description of the opening melody of the Suite...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2020

COKE Cello Sonatas

All three sonatas on this typically enterprising Lyrita anthology date from the years 1936 to 1941 – an especially fecund...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2020

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Ulf Wallin)

The black-and-white publicity photos in the CD booklet show two quite severe-looking musicians (the pianist seems to be glowering), a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2020

BEETHOVEN String Quintets Opp 29 & 104. Fugue op 137

It’s perhaps not surprising that Beethoven’s string quintets feature less highly in his output than do similar works by Mozart...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020

BEETHOVEN Septet REICHA Grande Symphonie No 1

Two sestercentennial composers are celebrated here: one with an early chamber work that barely wants for recordings, the other with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020

BARTÓK; KORNGOLD Piano Quintets (Goldner Quartet)

In an interesting note for this valuable if somewhat uneven coupling, Ben Winters makes the point that ‘both quintets were...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020

BACH; HANDEL 'An imaginary meeting'

As its name suggests, ‘An Imaginary Meeting’ musically enacts one of the greatest missed opportunities in musical history – a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2020

JS BACH 6 Flute Sonatas (Michala Petri)

Mahan Esfahani is characteristically pugnacious in his defence of these six works, in terms of their quality and authenticity, and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020

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