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ADAMS Violin Concerto (Josefowicz)

In his memoir Hallelujah Junction (Faber: 2008; 2/09), John Adams pays a glowing tribute to Leila Josefowicz’s tireless advocacy of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2018

CRUSELL Clarinet Concertos (Collins)

I imagine I am not alone in having first been introduced to the name and music of Bernhard Henrik Crusell...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018

Concerto Italiano: 1700

Arcangelo Corelli is the (unheard) presiding genius behind this sequel to Rinaldo Alessandrini’s chronological survey of 17th-century Italian string music...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2018

Mathias Kjøller plays Schumann, Reinecke, Debussy

Principal clarinet for both the Aarhus and Danish National Symphony orchestras, Mathias Kjøller (b1985) is a soloist in demand, especially...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018

The Music of Jean Sibelius (Chamber Domaine)

Sibelius as proto-minimalist – well, why not? That’s what the conductor Thomas Kemp suggests in his booklet notes, and his...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018

SCHUBERT Trout Quintet BRAHMS Piano Quintet

Two Trouts, one frolicking in the Oder, the other freezing in an Alpine stream in the skiing region around Chamonix....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018

SCHUBERT Aus der Ferne (Signum Quartet)

‘Sit back and enjoy’ urges the booklet and it really would be a pity not to listen right through. A...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018

NYMAN String Quartets Nos 4 & 5

Sixteen years separate Nyman’s String Quartets Nos 4 and 5 – quite a hiatus when you consider that Nos 1...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2018

MYASKOVSKY Cello Sonatas

If ever you needed proof of how utterly tone-deaf were the Soviet Union’s post-war denunciations of musical ‘formalism’, you couldn’t...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018

HAYDN Piano Trios (Trio Wanderer)

Five Haydn piano trios trace a passage from light to darkness – well, almost. The Trio Wanderer open with the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018

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