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Calidore String Quartet: Resilience

The cover of this new release from the Calidore Quartet has the four players standing in sunglasses in a Manhattan...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2018

Poetical Humors

At first sight, the young accordionist Vincent Lhermet and veteran viola da gamba player Marianne Muller seem the oddest of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2018

Jiyoon Lee: Mythes

Jiyoon Lee’s Champs Hill recital with Henry Kramer follows hard on the heels of her remarkable debut album (Orchid, A/18),...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

VIVALDI Sonatas for cello and basso continuo

There’s a happy inevitability about French period cellists taking Vivaldi’s six cello sonatas into the recording studio, when the Bibliothèque...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2018

B TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio. Cello Sonata (Marwood)

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in B minor? No, not in A minor. Nor, indeed, that Tchaikovsky. Naxos has done well by...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2018

STANFORD String Quartets 3, 4 & 7 (Dante Quartet)

I think it was George Bernard Shaw who first remarked that Stanford was at his best when he forgot to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2018

SCHUMANN 3 String Quartets (Engegård Quartet)

The Norwegian Engegård Quartet have only recently started programming single-composer discs (they released Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets last year – LAWO...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

RUDERS Occam's Razor (David Starobin)

In honour of William of Ockham’s famous dictum that the simplest solution tends to be the correct one, the eighth...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Vol 1 (Doric Quartet)

What makes the Doric the Doric? Is it their ability to reveal detail, though never at the cost of broader...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

BRAY Chamber and solo works

An earlier disc devoted to Charlotte Bray (1/15) has proved one of the most notable in NMC’s Debut series and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2018

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