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SCHMELZER The Emperor's Fiddler'

If Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s name comes first to mind when contemplating brilliant 17th-century Austrian violinists, consider also that...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2018

LANGGAARD Complete works for violin and piano, Vol 2

Dacapo’s traversal of Rued Langgaard’s vast and unruly output continues with this second volume of his music for violin and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2018

HAYDN String Quartets Op 64 (London Haydn Quartet)

‘He has taste, and the most profound knowledge of composition.’ It’s supremely fitting that Haydn paid his great tribute to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018

GADE Chamber music, Vol 4

Each issue of Ensemble MidtVest’s Gade series adds to the stylistic and taxonomical riddles surrounding the composer. While previous instalments...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018

DVOŘÁK Piano Trios Nos 3 & 4

With some discs, the very first notes tell you to expect something special. Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff sing softly together...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2018

DODGSON String Trios; Chamber Music with Harp and Guitar

Karolos are a dynamic, virtuoso chamber collective of first-rate players. These two discs – issued separately but together comprising over...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018

M BERKELEY Winter Fragments

Even when working with large-scale forces such as opera and music theatre, Michael Berkeley’s style and expression remain attuned to...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2018

BEETHOVEN The complete string quartets, Vols 5 & 6

I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is about the Elias Quartet’s interpretative style that’s so powerfully...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018

Prism I (Danish Quartet)

Air from another planet: when the Danish String Quartet first encountered late Beethoven it felt to them (as they explain...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2018

The Dreams and Fables I Fashion (Elicia Silverstein)

This debut disc from the American violinist Elicia Silverstein draws its title from the first line of a Metastasio sonnet...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2018

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