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Dominy Clements
Mozart: String Quartet & Quintet (Aeon)
This beautifully engineered package is one with which I shall be able to live happily for a long time [DC]
Brahms: Complete Works for Two Pianos (Netmark)
If the idea of neatly obtaining Brahms’s entire two-piano output appeals, then this fits the bill in just about every regard [DC]
Stjernebru: Nordic choral music (2L Records)
Had enough of contemporary Nordic choral music? Well, think again… [DC]
Scintilla – Early Italian String Quartets (Brilliant Classics)
Should be acquired by anyone with an affection for the string quartet genre [DC]
Habanera – Music For Eight Cellos and Voice (SOMM Recordings)
New meat for cello fans [DC]
Works for Campanula (and harp) (Cybele)
Fascinating sonorities and intriguing music [DC]
Vine: The Piano Music 1990-2006 (Tall Poppies)
(Déjà Review) An impressive, irreversible strength to the works on this disc [DC]
Mussorgsky & Rachmaninov: Piano Works (Navis Classics)
A valuable re-release by any standards [DC]
Marion Ravot (harp) Voyages (Solaire)
Bewitching total immersion in sublime harp sounds [DC]
Hertl, Černý, Reiner: Lost Beauty (Solaire)
Intriguing repertoire from a fascinating corner of Czech music [DC]
YULE (2L)
Not a ‘sing-along’ album, but richly suffused with the spirit of Yule [DC]
Widor & Lalo: Cello Concertos (Solaire)
The Widor concerto is quite a discovery [DC]
Hesketh: Hände – Music for Piano (Paladino Music)
A programme infused with qualities of permanence and necessity [DC]
Tippett: Piano Sonatas 1-3 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) I have been completely re-educated as to the substance and content of these pieces. What more can one ask for! [DC]
Malion Quartett: Departure (Solaire)
The Malion Quartett can stand comparison with anyone in this repertoire [DC]
Padding: Greatest Hits (So Far!) (Attacca)
Lively new music from a lost concert hall [DC]
Sutton: Orchestral works (Chandos)
A refreshing dose of new music in that much-loved English tradition [DC]
Claire Edwardes (percussion): Coil (Tall Poppies)
(Déjà Review) Claire Edwardes is a marvellous advocate for her profession and this repertoire [DC]