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Spectrum

Less may be more but more is even better – or so Benjamin Beilman seems to think. This 26-year-old American...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 06/2016

DEBUSSY String Quartet FRANCK Piano Quintet

When the seasoned artistry of the Takács Quartet blends with the thoughtful brilliance of Marc-André Hamelin, a rare alchemy occurs....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2016

BRAHMS String Quartet No 1. Piano Quintet

This pairing of the C minor Quartet and Piano Quintet comes a couple of years after the Brodsky’s first disc...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2016

ADÈS Arcadiana NØRGÅRD String Quartet No 1 ABRAHAMSEN String Quartet No 1

Though recorded five months earlier, this disc closely resembles a concert the Danish Quartet gave in October, marking the beginning...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2016

RAVEL Orchestrations

Considering the cultural links that existed between Russia and France at the turn of the 20th century, it is no...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2016

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5

Reading Julian Barnes’s Shostakovich-based novella The Noise of Time (Jonathan Cape, 4/16), I couldn’t help thinking how the unpredictable Prokofiev,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2016

PENDERECKI Concertos for Strings. Concertos for Wind

Dux’s Penderecki edition continues apace with these two impressive surveys of concertos for string and wind instruments, both of them...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2016

Gershwin in Hollywood

It was said that George Gershwin would strive to write four songs first thing in the morning – to get...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2016

DICKINSON Orchestral Works

This disc of orchestral works is the latest in a string of recordings that have appeared since the time of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2016

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 1 - 9 (Complete)

This download-only release from Peral brings together the various instalments of Daniel Barenboim’s third Bruckner cycle in a single format...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2016

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