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Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Valerie June, Angel Haze: new live music this week

Mendelssohn: String Quintets Op 18 and Op 87 - review

Buntrock/Leipziger Streichquartett (MDG Gold) In his two string quintets Mendelssohn followed Mozart's example in opting for a pair of violas rather than the two cellos that Schubert (and Boccherini before him) had favoured. The works were composed 19 ye

Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete; La Mort de Cleop

Berlioz has been a feature of Robin Ticciati's programmes since he took over as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's principal conductor three seasons ago.

Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 - review

Avdeeva/Orchestra of the 18th Century/Br

LSO/Gardiner - review

John Eliot Gardiner began the celebrations early for his 70th birthday last week when he presided over the nine-hour Bach marathon at the Royal Albert Hall on Easter Monday. His birthday concert with the London Symphony Orchestra may not have been on quit

Rihm: Symphonie N

Begemann/Lucerne SO/Gaffigan (Harmonia Mundi) Wolfgang Rihm 's works often emerge in family groups, with one piece serving as the starting point for a whole hierarchy of others, but the starting point for the five movements of the N

Reger: Introduction, Variations and Fugue; etc - review

David Goode (Signum Classics, two CDs) Even by Max Reger 's standards, the works that fill the first of this pair of discs are massive: at 35 and 31 minutes respectively, they are his two most substantial organ works. The Introduction, Variations and Fu

Schubert: String Quintet; Schoenberg: Verkl

Jansen/Brovtsyn/Rysanov/Grosz/Thedeen/Maintz (Decca) The Dutch violinist Janine Jansen assembled an outstanding group of her string-playing friends for these recordings of Schoenberg and Schubert, and technically their performances can't be faulted. Th

Moeran: Cello Concerto; Serenade, etc - review

Johnston/Coffey/Ulster O/Falletta (Naxos) Together with Frank Bridge's masterpiece Oration, EJ Moeran 's work is one of the two great British cello concertos that followed the example set by Elgar in the wake of the first world war. Moeran did not compl

Richafort: Requiem, etc - review

Josquin des Prez, the most influential composer in the Flemish school of the early 16th century, died in 1521.

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Andrew Clements