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DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 2

In another life Marc-André Hamelin might have made a great political agitator, or even an evangelist. He has an unbeatable...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2019

BRAHMS; SCHUBERT The Complete Duos / Coda

Pieter Wispelwey’s multi-album mission to record all of Brahms’s and Schubert’s duos – not just the ones for cello –...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2019

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 7 & 8 (Quatuor Ébène)

A well-spaced recording from the chamber music hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus places the Ébène players in the traditional layout,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

BEACH; CLARKE; FARRENC Piano Trios (Neave Trio)

There are some half-dozen accounts of Amy Beach’s 1938 Trio (in A minor, not specified on the disc) currently available...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019

Prism II (Danish String Quartet)

Polystylism was until quite recently a backhanded compliment thrown at Schnittke, and yet the presence of the Third Quartet is...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

This Is Rattle

In releasing films of significant recent concerts in toto on their own label, the LSO evidently have a marketing plan...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

Annelien Van Wauwe: Belle Époque

Think of La belle époque and I’m not sure Johannes Brahms necessarily springs to mind. Nevertheless, his First Clarinet Sonata,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019

VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Leila Schayegh)

If you are a fan of The Four Seasons – and its popularity certainly doesn’t stop it from being a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2019

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra (Chailly)

Four years ago, Riccardo Chailly conducted a series of Strauss tone poems in his final London concerts with the Leipzig...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1, 3 & 8 (de Vriend)

It barely feels as long ago as February that the first volume in Jan Willem de Vriend’s Schubert symphony cycle...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019

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