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Horn and Piano: A Cor Basse Recital
'Punto blows magnifique’, enthused Mozart to his father from Mannheim in 1778. At the end of the century the Bohemian...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2022
PIAZZOLLA Escualo5
Astor Piazzolla’s centenary in 2021 was marked by a slew of recordings, including superb releases from Karen Gomyo (BIS, A/21),...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
MOZART String Quartets, Vol 4 (Armida Quartet)
Gramophone caught up with the Armida Quartet’s Mozart cycle almost a year ago, with a two-disc set (Vol 3, 4/21)...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
MOERAN Chamber Music (Fidelio Trio)
Writing in the booklet, the Fidelio Trio’s violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea eloquently describe their strong ties to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2022
LECLAIR Violin Sonatas, Book 3 - Op. 5, Nos. 1-4
Famed for his Italianate high virtuosity but equally for employing it only with the utmost taste and grace, and for...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022
KAPUSTIN 'Blueprint - Piano Music For Jazz Trio'
In welcoming the unrestrained brilliance of Frank Dupree in Kapustin’s Fourth Piano Concerto (A/21), I compared the experience to listening...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
JENKINS Four-Part Consorts (Phantasm)
Fun fact: the viol consort music of the 16th and 17th centuries was so polyphonically complex and so democratic in...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022
IDDON Sapindales
The music on Martin Iddon’s second portrait disc on Another Timbre casts a flitting shadow at once medieval and contemporary....
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2022
BIRTWISTLE Chamber Works (Nash Ensemble)
For Harrison Birtwistle to change the title of Pulse Sampler to ‘Danse sacrale’ would suggest an inappropriately literal homage to...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2022
BEETHOVEN Rondino. Wind Octet MOZART Serenade (MIB Ensemble)
Don’t be fooled by the opus number. Beethoven’s Octet for pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns is one of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS; GAL 'Auftakt' (Trio Vision)
As Hans Gál told it, a busker named Ungrad frequented the wine gardens of fin de siècle Vienna, and for...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2022
'Beethoven for Three' Symphonies Nos 2 & 5
Ferdinand Ries’s arrangement for piano trio of Beethoven’s Second Symphony was published in 1805, a year after the publication of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
Edgar Moreau: Transmission
The cello as cantor. And for Edgar Moreau the incantations plainly run deep. The ‘Transmission’ of the title goes from...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2022
British Music for Strings, Vol 3 (Bostock)
This latest volume of British string music from Douglas Bostock and his 14 players in the South West German Chamber...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2022
TROTIGNON 'Anima'
For those unfamiliar with his name, Baptiste Trotignon emerged during the first decade of this century as one of the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022
RAVEL Orchestral Works (Wilson)
John Wilson is on a mission to bring his restorative ear to bear on Ravel’s orchestral catalogue, so expect more...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2022
MOZART; STRAUSS Oboe Concertos (Cristina Gómez Godoy)
The Spanish oboist Cristina Gómez Godoy (b1990) was a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for many years, as well...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
MOZART Symphonies Nos 38 & 39 (Manze)
Andrew Manze follows up his live Hanover recordings of Symphonies Nos 40 and 41 (4/19) with their two numerical predecessors,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
MOSZKOWSKI Orchestral music Vol 3 (Hobson)
André Previn once said to me that ‘just because a composer likes to write a sound that ravishes the ear...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
MARTINAITIS Seasons and Serenades - Works For String Orchestra
Lithuania’s senior composers are little heard outside their Baltic environs – not least Algirdas Martinaitis (b1950), whose music has not...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2022
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