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BARTÓK String Quartets Nos 2, 4 & 6

Relistening to the Emerson Quartet’s Gramophone Award-winning Bartók cycle for September’s Classics Reconsidered, I was reminded of how, as recently...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

Trios from our Homelands

It’s not exactly a recipe for cohesion – a collection of little-known works from Armenia, England and Switzerland, representing the...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 12/2016

In War and Peace

Writing in 1916, Yeats spoke of ‘Art whose end is peace’. Now, 100 turbulent years later, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato returns...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2016

The Sun Most Radiant

With this instalment of music from the Eton Choirbook, the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral sets out to rival The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2016

G JACKSON Vox Clara

This generously filled disc contains no fewer than eight premiere recordings among its 22 tracks. They reveal that Gabriel Jackson...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2016

FUX; KERLL Requiems

Kerll’s Missa pro defunctis (published 1689) was dedicated to Emperor Leopold I, and its preface reveals that the composer wanted...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2016

La famille Forqueray: Portrait(s)

In recent years it has become commonplace to attribute the 1747 Forqueray Pièces (issued in two versions – one for...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2016

RAVEL; SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios

The unusual item here is Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Trio of 1892, of which the Fidelio Trio give a performance of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2016

BEETHOVEN; MOZART Quintets for Piano and Winds

These performances by the Swiss period-instrument ensemble Die Freitagsakademie are so full of character and incident that one can almost...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2016

CPE BACH Flute Concerti

It’s perhaps rather unorthodox to begin a review by dealing with the accompanying sleeve notes, but still, here I go,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2016

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