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Review of The Mandolin in London

The Mandolin in London

After a wide-ranging exploration, over a number of consistently fascinating releases, of the baroque mandolin in Italy (with a brief...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024

Review of Home: American String Quartets

Home: American String Quartets

The Miró Quartet’s new album, ‘Home’, offers a discourse on the themes thrown up by the title: a nation’s people...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024

Review of Avec elles: Arrieu, Bonis, Borel, Chaminade, Debussy, Poulenc

Avec elles: Arrieu, Bonis, Borel, Chaminade, Debussy, Poulenc

The French have long been in an intimate relationship with the flute. Think of that siren call languorously opening Debussy’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024

Review of WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 4 (Arcadia Quartet)

WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 4 (Arcadia Quartet)

In this fourth instalment of Weinberg string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet tellingly juxtapose one of his greatest works with two...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024

Review of SORABJI Vocal and Chamber Works

SORABJI Vocal and Chamber Works

His output may be dominated by large-scale works for piano but Kaikhosru Sorabji wrote vocal and chamber pieces of relative...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024

Review of SENFTER Chamber Music

SENFTER Chamber Music

When reviewing Kilian Herold and the Armida Quartet’s recording of Johanna Senfter’s fine Clarinet Quintet, Richard Whitehouse hoped ‘that more...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Review of Schubert Reimagined (Josephine Knight)

Schubert Reimagined (Josephine Knight)

Adaptations of Schubert range from faithful transcriptions to more intricate amplifications and radical realisations such as Berio’s Rendering. Since the...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 08/2024

Review of Tempus omnia vicit: Purcell, Schubert, Josquin

Tempus omnia vicit: Purcell, Schubert, Josquin

International music competitions gifting a recording as part of their first-prize package may be increasingly common but few competition-label partnerships...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2024

Review of RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonatas (Dóra Kokas)

RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonatas (Dóra Kokas)

According to cellist Dóra Kokas, ‘Hypnosis’ (this programme’s title) refers to the hypnotherapy Rachmaninov underwent in order to overcome a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024

Review of POHLE Complete Sonatas & Ballet Music (Sailly)

POHLE Complete Sonatas & Ballet Music (Sailly)

David Pohle’s name is probably not familiar to many. Though his music appears on a handful of recorded anthologies of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2024

 

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Review - Michi X3 S2

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