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Flashback: Music for Saxophone and Piano from the 20th Century

The saxophone has a unique status among instruments in having its original reason for existing – as an instrument that...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016

Alliage Quintet: Fantasia

Cocktail-lounge Borodin has limited appeal. Smoky saxophones slink and shimmy through the Polovtsian Dances to open this unusual disc from...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2016

STRAVINSKY The Soldier's Tale

This new version of Stravinsky’s morality tale for dancers, actors and musicians was recorded in tandem with a production by...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2016

SCHUBERT Quintet. Lieder

The Quintet is the peak of Schubert’s chamber output and high on any ensemble’s wish-list. The essential recordings range from...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2016

PACHELBEL Un orage d'avril

The title of this release and the glowering skyscape on its cover are pure marketing – the piece from which...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2016

MOZART Violin Sonatas

Call me a killjoy, but my pulse rate rarely quickens at the prospect of Mozart’s pre-pubescent music. The three childhood...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2016

MOZART String Quartets K387 & K458

The line between poetry and preciousness is a thin one, and I don’t feel the Hagens reliably locate it here....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2016

D MATTHEWS Complete String Quartets Vol 4

Beethoven is the obvious and fully acknowledged godparent to David Matthews’s string quartets, and it is to his influence that...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2016

FORQUERAY5 Suites for Viol

With the exception of some of the big pièces de caractère of Marin Marais, the five suites for bass viol...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2016

FELDMAN Patterns in a Chromatic Field

When, in 2004, John Zorn’s Tzadik label declared its new recording of Morton Feldman’s 1981 cello-and-piano work Patterns in a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016

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