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WATKINS Chamber Music and Works for String Orchestra

Just short of his half-century, Huw Watkins has long been active as both composer and pianist, and on disc an...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 9 & 15 (Carducci Quartet)

The third volume of the Carducci Quartet’s Shostakovich cycle pairs two of the mightiest of the 15. Both the five-movement...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2024

SCHUMANN; TANEYEV Piano Quintets

I became obsessed with Sergey Taneyev’s Piano Quintet (1915) after hearing Pletnev, Repin, Gringolts, Imai and Harrell’s incendiary account (DG,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024

MANZIARLY Chamber Works

Born in Kharkiv, trained in France and Switzerland, spiritually inspired in India and harboured by the United States, Marcelle de...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024

FINNISSY 'Alternative Readings'

This remarkable sequence of compositions by Michael Finnissy (b1943) has several special qualities. The framing performances of different versions of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024

'Fauré authentique'

Just as the musical world has moved on from the polarity of authentic versus modern performance, here comes the A-word...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2024

BRAHMS Piano Trios (Trio Sõra)

I thoroughly enjoyed Trio Sōra’s nimble, clear-textured traversal of Beethoven’s six piano trios (Naïve, 12/20), although I found a few...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024

Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol 1

The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, the brainchild of violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster, has justified its name in several...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024

BORTKIEWICZ; KOSENKO; SKORYK 'Ukrainian Masters'

Only the first panel of this absorbing triptych is advertised as a first recording, but Viktor Kosenko’s Sonata of 1927...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024

VIVALDI Le Quattro Stagioni (Julien Chauvin; Luka Faulisi)

‘Yes, “another” recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons!’ cries Le Concert de la Loge’s violinist director Julien Chauvin at the top...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024

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