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SCHUBERT Die Nacht. Arpeggione Sonata

The arpeggione was a hybrid instrument, smooth-waisted, tuned and fretted like guitar but bowed like a viola da gamba. Invented...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2019

RUZICKA Clouds 2. String Quartet No 7

Composer, conductor and administrator, Peter Ruzicka is certainly among the most versatile of present-day musicians and this latest release updates...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2019

KUULA Violin Sonatas; Solo Piano Works

The year 2018 marked the centenary of the death of Toivo Kuula, shot in an argument aged 35 (ironically, his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019

GÓRECKI String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 (Tippett Quartet)

Górecki’s string quartets are fundamental to understanding his output, even though the first dates from 1988, his 55th year, and...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2019

BRIDGE Cello Sonata CLARKE Viola Sonata

Hands up: I hadn’t realised that Rebecca Clarke had authorised a cello version of her much-recorded Viola Sonata, although it...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2019

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas (Kate Wadsworth)

Just a few months ago, I reviewed a disc by Leila Schayegh and Jan Schultsz (Glossa, 10/18) that took Brahms’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 2 (Trio Con Brio Copenhagen)

Trio Con Brio launched their Beethoven piano trio cycle earlier this year with a pairing of the Op 1 No...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2019

JS BACH Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV1080 (Delian Quartet)

Previous Oehms albums from this German quartet have occasioned critical reservations in these pages over their apparently ill-prepared or uncommitted...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2019

Dorothee Mields: War & Peace 1618:1918

Fear, pain, desperation, gallows humour, longing for peace: experiences of war have changed little since earliest record. But what about...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2019

Then and There, Here and Now

There’s a real sense of exhilaration to ‘Then and There, Here and Now’ – the 40th-anniversary album by America’s all-male...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2019

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