Recording reviews – Page 101
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ReviewBlues Dialogues: Rachel Barton Pine, Matthew Hagle
Concentrating on pieces influenced by the blues, this CD is part of a long-running project to research music written by black composers.
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ReviewTasmin Little; John Lenehan: Clara Schumann, Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach
Little is a thoroughly persuasive advocate for these seldom-aired works by women composers
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ReviewNikolaj Znaider: Mozart
There’s an almost confessional quality to these live recordings of Mozart’s Violin Concertos
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ReviewSo Many Stars: Sonatinas for Violin and Piano by Berkeley, Françaix, Frances-Hoad, Sibelius, Crosse and Alwyn
Fenella Humphreys employs her customary imaginative flair and luminous palette of tone colours
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ReviewWihan Quartet: Smetana, Dvořák and Janáček quartets
Authentic, plain speaking performances of the Czech masters
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ReviewTwo recent Sonata and Partita sets
They approach Bach’s music from opposite sides of the historical divide, and the results make for a fascinating exercise in comparison
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ReviewSteven Isserlis; Olli Mustonen: Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Kabalevsky
An unmissable take on three Russian masters
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ReviewChloë Hanslip; Danny Driver: Beethoven
A conclusion to a Beethoven violin sonata cycle that strikingly points up the composer’s musical journey
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ReviewElicia Silverstein: The Dreams & Fables I Fashion
A thoughtful performance that finds the resonances between the Italian avant-garde and the Baroque
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ReviewConsone Quartet: Mendelssohn; Haydn
The prize-winning quartet gets under the skin of Mendelssohn and Haydn
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ReviewIsabelle van Keulen: Prokofiev; Walton; Vaughan Williams
A subtle, unpretentious performance of three works for violin and viola
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ReviewElias Quartet: Beethoven
Drawing-room elegance and earthy vigour exist side by side in the Elias’s complete Beethoven
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ReviewArabella Steinbacher: Strauss
The German violinist shapes Strauss’s melodies with warmth and sincerity
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ReviewEuropa Galante: Concerti per Violini Vi 'La Boemia'
Biondi and Europa Galante speak Vivaldi’s multiple languages with utter naturalness, energy and charm
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ReviewDaniele Roccato; Giacomo Piermatti: Scodanibbio
A masterful rendering of an innovator’s key works for double bass
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ReviewNing Feng: Elgar and Finzi violin concertos
Old-fashioned violin virtuosity makes a case for these two concertos
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ReviewVilde Frang: Bartók; Enescu
A performance to match the constant and staggering invention of Enescu’s Octet
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ReviewThe Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
A very persuasive novel with music and violin making at its core
