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LABOR Piano Quintet. Piano Quartet

Poor Josef Labor (1842-1924), blind from the age of three, known to us now almost entirely through his use to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019

CHOPIN Piano Trio Op 8. Grande Fantaisie

Chopin discs come and go, with all the usual titles making claims to our attention. Here, for once, is a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS Clarinet Trios (Bedenko)

Beethoven presented his Septet to the Viennese public in April 1800 as part of a marathon concert that also included...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019

ANDERSON Poetry Nearing Silence

This selection of six relatively small-scale chamber pieces by Julian Anderson takes in works written between 1987 and 2015; and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2019

Quattro Violini a Venezia (Clematis)

The names here are the ones that turn up on most anthologies of early 17th-century Italian string music, but what...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2019

WAGNER Overtures & Preludes (Orozco-Estrada)

These overtures and preludes were recorded live in the Eberbach Abbey basilica, whose resonant acoustic magnifies the unusually soft-grained character...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending (Manze)

Anyone looking for an introduction to the music of Vaughan Williams ought to look no further than this new release...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2019

TERTERIAN Symphonies 3 & 4

Avet Rubeni Terterian’s relatively early death in 1994 may not be the only reason we haven’t heard more of him....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 (Jansons)

One of these days a Mariss Jansons recording will arrive that will confound my expectations. This, alas, is not it....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 4 (Noseda)

It’s the symphony that might or might not have recalibrated Shostakovich’s future and it’s still one of the trickiest to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019

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