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Cantabile: Anthems For Viola (Jordan Bak)

Modern recordings of Arnold Bax’s great Viola Sonata are thin on the ground and so it is a joy to...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 07/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartets Vol 1 (Dudok Quartet)

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam enjoy a healthy Tchaikovsky lineage. They studied with Marc Danel, whose Quatuor Danel in turn studied...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2024

STRAUSS Piano Quartet. Metamorphosis (Trio Arnold)

Strauss’s chamber music output for strings is such that there aren’t many obvious programming combinations. As a result, this isn’t...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2024

SCHUBERT String Quartets D112; 887

In an interesting booklet note for this formidably competitive release, Richard Wigmore remarks, concerning the epic Quartet No 15 in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2024

LOEFFLER Octet DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) is one of the most fascinating figures in American music. Born near Berlin and raised in...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2024

Serenade - Works for Clarinet and Strings by Krenek, Gál and Penderecki

All is well with the world in these serenades by Gál and Krenek, which breathe the same Viennese air of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2024

FUCHS Violin Sonatas Nos 4-6 (Hyejin Chung)

Robert Fuchs is a largely forgotten name these days but in 19th-century Vienna he was very much an established part...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024

BRAHMS; LIGETI; MOZART; SCHUMANN Horn Trios

The rhetorical question arises, listening to this particular instrumental line-up: why doesn’t every composer write a horn trio? In the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2024

Music of Martin Boykan Vol 3

Best known for his writings on music (notably The Power of the Moment; Pendragon Press: 2011), Martin Boykan (1931-2021) was...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

'Between Two Worlds'

As his extensive discography makes plain, clarinettist Guy Yehuda is always on the lookout to place Jewish-related music and Jewish...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

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