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A Lionel Tertis Celebration (Timothy Ridout)

London East Ender Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) was one of the most influential viola players of the last century, his sound...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024

SCHUMANN Piano Quartet. Piano Quintet

Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an instrumental combination virtually unknown at the time. Amazingly, the two Schumann masterpieces...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024

OSWALD 12 Sonatas for Violin & Basso Continuo (Capella Jenensis)

This release isn’t far off being the complete works of the Thuringian composer Andreas Oswald. Born in Weimar in 1634,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024

MENDELSSOHN Works for Cello & Piano (Sol Gabetta)

Although memorably heartfelt and at times heroic, Felix Mendelssohn’s immensely likeable First Cello Sonata is hardly on a par with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024

Handel for Trumpet: Concertos and Arias Re-Imagined (Jonathan Freeman-Attwood)

Mozart, Strauss, 17th-century English madrigals … to say that (our own) Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Timothy Jones’s series of ‘reimaginings’ of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2024

FAURÉ The Music for Cello and Piano

This album beautifully showcases exactly the contrasts – the surprising varieties of light and shade – that we expect from...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 02/2024

CORBETTA 'La Guitarre Royalle'

It’s easy to imagine the peripatetic Italian guitarist and composer Francesco Corbetta (c1615-1681) cheerfully plucking and strumming his way through...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2024

WF BACH; GOLDBERG Trio Sonatas

If it did nothing else, Forkel’s origin story for the Goldberg Variations immortalised the name of Bach’s student, who would...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2024

Chromosphere: Symphonic Colours of the Woodwind Orchestra

Subtitled ‘symphonic colours of the woodwind orchestra’, Divine Art’s ‘Chromosphere’ is an engaging collection of attractive new works – all...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024

Avi Avital 'Baroque Album'

If I hear a recording this year more guaranteed to put a spring in my step than this, then 2024...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

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