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SCHUBERT Violin Sonatas (Peter Hanson)

These three sonatinas were intended for domestic music-making by amateurs, and thus their technical demands are quite modest. This relative...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2025

HAYDN String Quartets, Op 33, ‘Russian’

Hans Keller notoriously omitted the fourth (and only the fourth) of Haydn’s Op 33 from his book The Great Haydn...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2025

ELGAR; FAURÉ String Quartets

Formed in 2016 and awarded a residency three years later as part of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme at...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2025

DRING Complete Chamber Music for Oboe (Nicholas Daniel)

Born in 1923, Madeleine Dring was a composition student of Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob at the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2025

CORELLI; HANDEL Violin (Recorder) Sonatas (Michaela Koudelková)

Czech recorder player Michaela Koudelková’s name was a new one to me before I clapped ears on this Supraphon debut...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2025

Brahms & Contemporaries Vol 2

We’re coming to be able to confidently count on violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster with their Kaleidoscope Collective...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2025

BERIO Complete String Quartets

Luciano Berio’s music for string quartet is of interest not least for its ranging over almost the whole of his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2025

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18

While conservative-minded critics found Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets harsh and ‘difficult’, the wider public was enthusiastic. No 4, in the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2025

Pablo Ferrández: Moonlight Variations

Cellist Pablo Ferrández built this programme around the Rococo Variations, first adding Tchaikovsky’s Nocturne (originally for piano but later arranged...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2025

TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence. Symphony No 6 (Hindoyan)

Tackling a symphony of which your orchestra made a distinguished recording with your predecessor – and for the very same...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2025

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