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MARTINŮ Cantatas

This is a singularly exotic issue for Czechs and non-Czechs alike. Four cantatas are collected here, written by Martinů between...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2017

BERG Wozzeck

This Wozzeck was a retirement gift from the Houston Symphony to its Music Director of 12 years’ standing, Hans Graf....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017

Benjamin Appl: Heimat

Anyone who enjoyed Benjamin Appl’s previous disc, a Schubert recital (Wigmore Hall Live, 7/16), will recognise the same qualities on...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017

LISZT Sonatas for Two Pianos

This is one of the finest two-piano recitals to come my way for quite some time – though I may...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 3, 11 & 13

In case you cast an eye across the movement contents of Op 130 and feel short-changed because Beethoven’s rewritten finale...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Job. Symphony No 9

This generous coupling of two RVW masterworks reprises – and outshines – Andrew Davis’s own Teldec British Line offering from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

HOWELL; BEACH; CHAMINADE Piano Concertos

None of the 91 composers featured on the previous 69 volumes in Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series has been a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

Dynastie: Bach Family Concertos

The young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau made his debut on Erato in 2015 with ‘Imagine’, a recital of Bach keyboard...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2017

Baroque Treasury

Arguments about period versus modern instruments in Baroque repertoire may reign forever, but performances in recent decades have proved that...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017

American Voices: Music for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

The Waldland Ensemble have two missions: expanding the repertoire for clarinet, viola and piano, and raising awareness of conservation issues....

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017

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