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Milestones: The Jazz Album

Quatuor Ébène’s new jazz album ‘Milestones’ takes its name from the classic Miles Davis long-player from 1958, a time described...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2024

An Evening in Vienna 1784

The entertaining ghosted memoirs of the Irish tenor Michael Kelly, the first Basilio in Figaro, need to be taken with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2024

YE Chamber Music

The output of Xiaogang Ye (b1955) has become relatively familiar in the West, and not just at festivals or retrospectives...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2024

C&E SCHUMANN Works for Viola; for Oboe; for Clarinet

How prescient of Schumann to designate many of his sets of domestic chamber miniatures for a choice of instruments. Not...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

PHIBBS String Quartets

When Andrew Farach-Colton reviewed Joseph Phibbs’s First String Quartet (2014) – also recorded by the Piatti Quartet (Champs Hill, 11/18)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2024

NESET Who We Are

What happens when an established classical pianist and jazz saxophonist pool together their not inconsiderable resources in the service of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2024

IVES Violin Sonatas. Piano Sonatas (Stefan Jackiw, Jeremy Denk)

The 150th anniversary of Ives’s birth and 70th of his death has so far occasioned relatively few recordings, making this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2024

DVOŘÁK Complete Works For Violin and Piano (Jirí Vodicka)

One tends to forget just how much violin-and-piano duo music there exists by Dvořák when you consider both the works...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2024

CORELLI 12 Violin Sonatas (Rachel Barton Pine)

Head straight to the opening Adagio of Sonata No 4 in F to get a flavour of Rachel Barton Pine’s...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2024

BLOCK Chamber Works

Frederick Block? No, me neither, and if you know the story of Austrian music in the 20th century you can...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024

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