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SIERRA Chamber and Piano Music

Continuum, co-directed by pianists Joel Sachs and Cheryl Seltzer, have been playing Roberto Sierra’s music for some 40 years now....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2025

RÖNTGEN 3 Viola Sonatas (Herbert Kefer)

From everything we read about his long life, to a delightful photo in which he sits happily with Mr and...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2025

RAVAL Ricercari & Canzonette

There’s a whiff of Cervantes to the career of Sebastián Raval (d1604). As a soldier he was injured in battle...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2025

PROKOFIEV String Quartets. Visions Fugitives (Quatuor Danel)

Quatuor Danel have already produced admirable sets of all the Shostakovich and Weinberg quartets, so I was naturally intrigued to...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2025

MARAIS Voix humaines: Pièces inédites pour flûte

That Marin Marais wrote music specifically for the flute was only suspected until a couple of years ago, when two...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2025

DOVE On the streets and in the sky

On November 20, 2021, the UK-based Sacconi Quartet gave a 20th-birthday concert at London’s Wigmore Hall in which the centrepiece...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2025

Le Temps des lilas: Chausson & Barbara

Once a comparatively rarer-spotted musical beast, Chausson’s bonkers-brilliant Concert for violin, piano and string quartet of 1891, dedicated to Eugène...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2025

BRAHMS Piano Quartets Nos 2 & 3

Notwithstanding the yellow label’s Zimerman-centred promotional branding, this outstanding recording of Brahms’s two later piano quartets (minus the more often-heard...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2025

Philippe Quint: Milestones

Philippe Quint’s distinguished discography mixes standard repertoire with less familiar fare, such as concertos by Corigliano (The Red Violin, 9/08),...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2025

WALLEN Orchestral Works

Playful and serious elements combine and interact in colourful and revealing ways on this album of orchestral compositions by Errollyn...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2025

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