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TIPPETT String Quartets

Less forcefully than The Lindsays, yet with more momentum than the Tippett Quartet on Naxos, the Heath Quartet’s Tippett exemplifies...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2016

RÖNTGEN String Trios Nos 9 - 12

Julius Röntgen’s not-entirely undeserved reputation for composing too much may lead unwary listeners to pass by this third instalment of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2016

Paganini Rediscovered

The main interest here is the premiere recording of the newly discovered violin and piano introduction to the Moses Fantasy:...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016

HAYDN String Quartets Op 50

When Haydn completed his Six Quartets, Op 50, in 1787, they triggered a Europe-wide bidding war among music publishers. As...

Reviewed in issue 03/2016

HAYDN String Quartets Op 76

Haydn’s last completed set of quartets, commissioned by Count Joseph Erdödy, share the ‘London’ Symphonies’ combination of popular appeal and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2016

BRUCH 8 Pieces. Kol Bidrei. Romance

Even as a lapsed clarinettist, it’s difficult to argue much of a case for Bruch’s Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016

BRAHMS Piano Quartet No 3. Piano Trio No 1

It’s a decade ago now that Trio Wanderer recorded the three standard Brahms piano trios for Harmonia Mundi, in a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2016

BRAHMS Cello Soatas Nos 1 - 3

Solidly Russian-school and an eminently expressive cellist, Alexander Kniazev is in many ways perfectly suited to the Romanticism of Brahms’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2016

BEETHOVEN Complete Violin Sonatas

Two brand-new Beethoven cycles from two major violinists, born little more than a year apart. Tasmin Little has a long-standing...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2016

BARTÓK 44 Duos for 2 Violins

As Decca is somewhat shy about letting on exactly who the sisters Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu are (at least in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016

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