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Spanish Impressions

How savvy to begin a programme of Spanish piano trio works with Enrique Arbós’s Three Pieces, Op 1, particularly with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23

An Invitation at the Schumanns'

Here’s a neat concept for an album; and unlike many others, it doesn’t over-determine an understanding of the music. Instead...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: AW23

Galanterie: The Autumn of the Viola da gamba

André Lislevand’s name will most probably be new to at least the majority of Gramophone readers, but if you’re remotely...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW23

Echoes of Bohemia - Czech Music for Wind

'The Bohemians are remarkably expert in the use of wind instruments’, wrote dear old Dr Burney, and naturally enough he’s...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

ŽIKOVIČ Citadel of Love

Djuro Živković, born in Serbia in 1975 but long resident in Sweden, has had a meteoric career, the most visible...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW23

THWAITES Chamber Music

It’s not really fair to try and appraise an unfamiliar composer’s voice from a single selection of their works. So...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

PETTERSSON Concerto for Violin and String Quartet

Allan Pettersson’s reputation rests still, mostly, on his sequence of large-scale, immensely powerful symphonies. His songs – particularly the 24...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW23

KORNGOLD String Quartet No 1. Piano Quintet. Music For Violin, Cello & Piano

If I wanted to give a novice a first taste of Korngold’s chamber music, I’d play them the opening of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

HUMMEL Piano Quintets

Full disclosure. These are two of my favourite chamber works, even if the Piano Quintet in D minor, Op 74,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW23

ENESCU; MENDELSSOHN String Octets

Enescu wasn’t sure that his massive String Octet of 1900 was a chamber work at all. He was happy for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

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