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VIVALDI Concerti for strings. Concerti for viola d'amore

Happily for Vivaldi lovers, the long-stalled Naïve Edition is now back on track, complete with those chic cover portraits mingling...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2018

BYRD One Byrde in Hande

A joyous upwards flourish opens Richard Egarr’s Byrd recital, added by him to the beginning of a 50-second Prelude for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2018

GÓRECKI Symphony No 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’

My first, instinctive, impression of the first movement in this live recording – made in 1995 – was that it...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2018

BENEVOLO Missa Si Deus pro nobis. Magnificat

This is a project that has been 20 years in the making. In 1996 Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018

Russian Romantics

The corpus of 19th-century Russian music for violin and piano being less than might be supposed, Hideko Udagawa has created...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2018

STRAVINSKY Music for Violin, Vol 2

When reviewing the first volume of Ilya Gringolts’s Stravinsky series (A/17), I cited Anthony Marwood (Hyperion, 3/10) as the main...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2018

RAVEL; SZYMANOWSKI String Quartets (Quatour Joachim)

Quatuor Joachim describe themselves as ‘half French, half Polish’. Warmly reviewed in French repertoire, they’ve conceived this mixed programme of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2018

PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas (Conunova & Lifitis; Pritchin & Favorin)

I’d heard Michail Lifits on the superb recital disc he made with the highly individual Vilde Frang (EMI, 9/11), but...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2018

PIAZZOLLA Ángeles y Diablos

This is the third Piazzolla album by the Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble. As with the previous entries, the players are...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2018

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets (Tippett Quartet)

The Tippett Quartet first came to my attention playing the music of their namesake on Naxos, and they’ve since been...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2018

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