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MATTHEWS. SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets

David Matthews’s Piano Quintet is modest both in dimensions and in ambitions: the titles of its four movements – Praeludio,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2016

HINDEMITH Viola Sonatas

Dabringhaus und Grimm served Hindemith’s sonatas well in the mid-1990s with a seven-volume survey of 31 of them by Ensemble...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2016

GORECKI Genesis I KORNDORF In Honour of Alfred Schnittke

His Symphony No 3 propelled him to chart-topping stardom, thanks to its beatific, anaesthetising simplicity. Now whenever Henryk Górecki gets...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 07/2016

GODARD Violin Sonatas

Benjamin Godard trained as a violinist before turning to composition. Though he soon expressed a marked preference as a performer...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016

GLASS In the Summer House MUHLY Four Studies

Philip Glass may have studied with two of the 20th century’s most revered teachers – Vincent Persichetti and Nadia Boulanger...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2016

COSTANZI Cello Sonatas

‘Giovanni del Violoncello’ was the contemporary nickname awarded to the now-forgotten 18th-century Italian cellist-composer Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704 78), giving...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2016

BUTLER Dirty Beasts. Down-Hollow Winds. Rondes d'Automne

Plenty of new music has pretensions it can’t sustain. Not so Martin Butler’s. His output comes close to post-minimalism yet...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2016

ENJAMIN Dream of the Song LINDBERG Era TAN DUN The Wolf

Here’s the second recording of Magnus Lindberg’s Era to be issued this year. The piece was written for the RCO,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016

READ THOMAS EOS MUHLY Control NORMAN Switch

This disc contains premiere recordings of the three works commissioned by the Utah Symphony to celebrate its 75th birthday, and...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 07/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 DVOŘÁK Rusalka Fantasy

‘It is not necessary to add sugar to honey.’ Manfred Honeck quotes his predecessor as music director at the Pittsburgh...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2016

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