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FRANDSEN Songs

Musical polymath John Frandsen has notched up seven operas and a recent long-form Requiem, ‘an eloquent statement’ for Malcolm Riley...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2016

BRUCKNER Mass No 3

The seemingly endless flow of Bruckner symphony releases makes it easy to forget that some of the composer’s most inspired...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2016

Barry Meets Beethoven

A welcome addition, this, to the Gerald Barry discography. Bookended by two works setting Beethoven’s letters, the disc also features...

Reviewed in issue 09/2016

Di Guerra e di Pace: Renaissance music for winds and percussion

This engaging recital focuses on music from the first half of the 16th century known to have been performed by...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2. Viola Sonata

It is becoming ever more routine to couple both Shostakovich piano trios together, and with the half-hour Viola Sonata and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016

SCHOENBERG String Quartets Nos 1 - 4

The Cologne-based Asasello Quartet have programmed Arnold Schoenberg’s four string quartets in reverse order, a journey from the natty arithmetic...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2016

SCHNITTKE Works for Violin & Piano

In the booklet Roman Mints writes of a pre first sonata of Schnittke that he decided not to record because...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016

REICH Double Sextet. Radio Rewrite

Steve Reich will be 80 this year – a landmark date that will no doubt encourage some to reflect on...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2016

MOZART Piano Trios KV 502, 542 & 564

Mozart’s piano trios don’t come out to play as often as Haydn’s, despite being among his finest chamber works. (Similarly...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016

LEGRENZI Sonate & Balletti

Like so many 17th-century Italian musicians, Giovanni Legrenzi led a peripatetic life. Following a conventional enough start to his career...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2016

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