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Philarmonica: Purcell, Matteis, Mrs Philarmonica
The young French early music group Le Consort has form when it comes to uniting Baroque’s biggest names with near-forgotten,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
Painted Light: Music for String Quartet
Perceptions of colour connect each of the works on the Solem Quartet’s new album. The musical styles range from Impressionism...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
Fathers & Daughters
Its title may conjure Turgenevian imagery but ‘Fathers and Daughters’ celebrates the close familial and professional ties between these four...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024
REGER; SENFTER Clarinet Quintets
Having completed their traversal of Mozart’s string quartets, then recently issued an insightful coupling of piano quintets by Franck and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024
RAVEL; SCHUMANN String Quartets (Leonkoro Quartet)
The Leonkoro (Esperanto: ‘Lionheart’) Quartet make their debut album following a string of competition wins. As I remarked in a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
MÜLLER-HARTMANN Chamber Works
The ‘Music in Exile’ series led by the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble has turned up several worthwhile discoveries among those Jewish...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps MURAIL Stalag VIIIa
No 20th-century composition rises more determinedly above earthly trials and tribulations than the quartet for violin, cello, clarinet and piano...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024
MADERNA Serenata per un satellite. Venetian Journal
Any mid-20th-century composer as upfront and exuberant in his embrace of modernist and avant-garde techniques as Bruno Maderna was bound...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024
HAYDN Baryton Trios Vol 2
Haydn’s output for the baryton is one of those facets of his artistry that is more known about than it...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
Handel at Home Vol 2: Total Eclipse
It’s one thing to say that you’re recording a programme of music fit for an 18th-century evening’s domestic music-making. It’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
BOCCHERINI String Quintets
The Karski Quartet, founded in Belgium in 2018, take their name from Jan Karski, a Second World War resistance fighter,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2024
BLISS; FERGUSON; HOLLOWAY Octets & Clarinet Quintet
The larger chamber combinations of wind and strings – one thinks of Beethoven’s Septet, Schubert’s Octet and the nonets of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol 2 (Antje Weithaas)
I found much to admire in the first instalment of Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon’s survey of the Beethoven violin...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 1 (Doric String Quartet)
The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN String Quartets opp 74 & 130
The six Op 18 Quartets now under their belts, the Chiaroscuro Quartet have chosen for the next instalment of their...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
JS BACH Viola da Gamba Sonatas
Yet another album of Bach’s sonatas for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord, I hear you sigh. Yet gambist Andrea...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2024
United Strings of Europe: through the night
Just three years have passed since the United Strings of Europe released their first recording (2/21), but the London-based group...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems
Name 15 French symphonic poems. Assuming Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre and Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice head your list, where next? After...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2024
SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Herreweghe)
These interpretations are not markedly different from Herreweghe’s period-instrument recording with the Champs-Élysées Orchestra on his first Schumann symphony cycle....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
SCHMIDT Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Berman)
Although still rarely encountered in the concert hall, Franz Schmidt’s symphonies are increasingly well represented on record, this being at...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024
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