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MAXWELL DAVIES Sonata for Violin Alone. Sonata for Violin and Piano

Maxwell Davies’s output for strings is remembered chiefly for his 10 ‘Naxos’ String Quartets. However, the cycle represents only the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2017

JONGEN Concert à cinq

A misty incantation, a swirl of sound with a whole-tone flavour: if it comes as a surprise to discover Joseph...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

DOHNÁNYI; TANEYEV Piano Quintets

‘His own compositions are more remarkable for sound workmanship and a cultured taste than for charm or warmth of inspiration’,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

KODÁLY; DOHNÁNYI Serenades

I’ll just say it: I don’t think any composer since the 18th century did fast, humorous finales more entertainingly than...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

BRAHMS String Sextets

This disc, like the Cypress Quartet’s previous releases on Avie, was recorded at Skywalker Sound in California – although these...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017

BORODIN Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 2

The comparative novelties here are Borodin’s Piano Quintet in C minor and his Cello Sonata in B minor – comparative,...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2017

New Year's Concert 2017

Sentiment against the young Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel often turns ugly, with his most fierce critics lapsing into a disreputable...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2017

VIVALDI The Four Seasons

I’m constantly amazed at how the fount of fresh spins on The Four Seasons never appears to dry up, and...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2017

VASKS Flute Concerto. Symphony No 3

Atvars Lakstīgala and the Liepāja SO follow up their excellent account of Pēteris Vasks’s Second Symphony from 1998 99 (Odradek,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

STUCKY American Muse

The death last year of Steven Stucky (1949-2016) went largely unremarked amid the relentless, almost daily cavalcade of loss in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2017

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