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FRICKER String Quartets

The success of the Heath Quartet’s Gramophone Award-winning Tippett cycle spotlit the tip of the iceberg of a huge body...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2017

DVOŘÁK Piano Trios Nos 3 & 4

Unlike the Florestan Trio, who celebrated their birth with these very two Dvořák trios, the Wanderer have waited 30 years...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

CRANE 6 Trios, 2 Solos and 1 Quintet

Another month, another disc from the British composer Laurence Crane, which suggests that the concerted efforts of labels such as...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2017

BRAHMS Piano Quartet No 2 MAHLER Piano Quartet

In January I enthused about the first instalment of Brahms piano quartets from this Russo-German alliance. Now comes the remaining...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3

Ingolf Turban marks 30 years of performing with the release of this recital recorded live in Munich last April. He...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

BEETHOVEN; FRANCK Violin Sonatas transcribed for Cello

‘Up high it sounds nasal, and down low it grumbles’: Dvořák’s supposed comment about the solo cello came to mind...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017

ALWYN String Quartets Nos 10 - 13

Although William Alwyn’s extensive catalogue includes three ‘official’ string quartets dating from 1953, 1975 and 1984, his relationship with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2017

La storia di Orfeo

What a brilliant idea. Taking the best of three different Orpheus operas and weaving them together into a single composite,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017

WAGNER Das Liebesverbot

Wagner’s second complete opera mostly switched allegiance to contemporary Italian (Donizetti, Rossini) and French (Auber, Hérold) models rather than German...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2017

THOMMESSEN The Hermaphrodite

The Hermaphrodite is described as a ‘chamber opera in seven parts’, but that’s only part of the story. The work...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017

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