Recording Reviews – Page 4
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Trio 1790: Kozeluch Piano Trios Vol.4
Performances that tickle the ear, even if the content is slight
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Adorno Quartet: Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Perceptive readings make the case for a neglected quartet byway
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Gringolts Quartet, Lilli Maijala (viola): Brahms
Musicianly performances can’t quite compete with the finest
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Adrian Bradbury: The Pre-Raphaelite Cello
A heartfelt tribute to the British cello icon Beatrice Harrison
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Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque: The Muses Restor’d
A thought-provoking programme from a period-instrument Pied Piper
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Karl Stobbe: Bach, Paganini, Ysaÿe
An artist compels in the Romantics but falls short in Bach
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The Strad Recommends: Rose Wollman: Breaking Glass Ceilings: Music by Unruly Women
A new label more than lives up to its provocative title
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The Strad Recommends: James Ehnes: Bernstein, Williams
An illuminating take on two American masters
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The Strad Recommends: Janine Jansen: Prokofiev, Sibelius
Two masterly musicians on top form in an unusual pairing
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Roberto Trainini: Casella, Mulè, Pizzetti, Respighi
Italian cello rarities prove a mixed affair, despite powerful characterisation
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Klenke Quartet: Erkin, Ravel, Schulhoff
An enterprising programme in which a Turkish discovery stands out
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Friederike Starkloff: Traum und Trauma
An album celebrating a remarkable decade of musical invention
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David Bowlin, Kirsten Docter, Dmitry Kouzov: Roussel
No loss of character as a master of the stage turns inward
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Quartetto Noûs: Shostakovich
An Italian group brings warmth to its ongoing Shostakovich cycle
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Simone Lamsma, Candida Thompson: Pärt über Bach
A meeting of minds across the centuries in this imaginatively conceived album
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Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Brahms and Contemporaries Vol.1
Winning advocacy of a Clara Schumann pupil, though she’s no match for Brahms