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SWEELINCK Keyboard Works (Andrea Vivanet)

The Italian pianist Andrea Vivanet is smart to mix a representative spectrum of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s basic compositional forms –...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024

LE BRET Pieces de Clavecin (Simone Pierini)

Well here’s a name that’s probably new to most of us. Le Bret published a single book of harpsichord pieces...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 28 & 29 (James Brawn)

In 2013 James Brawn launched his ‘Beethoven Odyssey’, a survey of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas that reaches its final...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024

Rooted: Smetana, Suk, Martin, Coleridge-Taylor

The Neave Trio are noted for their eclectic choice of repertoire, and here their broad interests once again illuminate unfamiliar...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2024

An die Musik: Works for Cello & Piano

Cellists are fully warranted in their appropriation, via the art of transcription, of works for other instruments. After all, violinists...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2024

SHAW Rectangles and Circumstance

Caroline Shaw’s association with percussion quartet Sō Percussion goes back to their graduate school days at Yale University some 20...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024

SCHUMANN String Quartets. Piano Quintet

As musical birthday presents go, Schumann’s three string quartets vie with Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll – both were dedicated to the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024

HUBER Piano Quintets Nos 1 & 2

Swiss composer Hans Huber (1852-1921) – whose output included five operas, eight symphonies (recorded two decades and more ago by...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024

GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN String Quartets Nos 7-10

Reviewing Volume 1 of this cycle (5/19), Andrew Mellor welcomed the ‘tight, no-nonsense and considered performances’ by the Nordic Quartet....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024

GIPPS Piper of Dreams: Chamber Music for Oboe

No doubt as to the standout item on this latest volume from Chandos devoted to the music of Ruth Gipps...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024

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