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HINDEMITH Viola Sonatas (Maria Shetty)

As is made clear with her extensive annotations, Maria Shetty did not undertake performance of Hindemith’s sonatas for viola lightly,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

ELIAS Music for Strings

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the finest album of contemporary...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2024

CASTALDI; PELLEGRINI Capricci

Active for some time in the continuo and small ensemble fields, French lutenist and baroque guitarist Albane Imbs can’t seem...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW2024

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Ostrovsky; Suwanai)

Here are two quite distinct interpretative visions of Brahms’s violin sonatas. Ostrovsky and Morozova are a thoughtful duo who like...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

BRAHMS Piano Quartets Nos 2 & 3

To learn that a particular recording is the last that an artist had made is to encourage speculation about possible...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Cello and Piano, Vol 1 (Gabriel Schwabe)

An effective litmus test when reviewing a recent recording of familiar repertoire is whether or not your ear automatically sidesteps...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

Paris est une fête

This disc of French music would make a lovely, balanced concert programme: two concertante works for violin, an orchestral lollipop...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2024

Dalia's Mixtape

Those old enough to remember the 1970s and ’80s will no doubt be familiar with the idea of the mixtape,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2024

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Mäkelä)

What we have here is a telling snapshot of Shostakovich’s symphonic journey with all its socio-political implications. With the Fourth...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2024

REINECKE Symphony No 2. Overtures (Raudales)

A student of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt, Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) was a prominent fixture in Leipzig musical life for four...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

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