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Poulenc Sonata for Oboe and Piano'. Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano'. Francois Leleux (ob); °Jean-Francois Duquesnoy (bn); °Guillaume Sutre (vn); °Miguel da Silva (va); °Marc Coppey (ye); abdeEnunanuel Strosser (pf).

Close on the heels of Harmonia Mundi's Poulenc/Britten disc (see above), featuring the excellent young French oboist Francois Leleux, comes this British issue with the vastly more experienced Sarah Francis and four talented colleagues, devoted entirely to Britten. While the two issues both...

Schumann Marchenerzdhlungen, Op. 132. Michel Lethiec (c1); Vladimir Mendelssohn (va); Roberte Mamou (pf).

Restrained, elegiac and with an almost therapeutic consistency of pulse, "The Last Days" (the album's generic title) suggests a combination of commemorative and reconciliatory elements. The commemorative angle concerns both the First Quartet (1985), which Bryars revised at the time of his...

Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano in A. Pierre Amoyal (vn); Pascal Roge (pf); aYsaye Quartet (Christophe Giovaninetti, Luc-Marie Aguera, vns; Miguel da Silva; va; Michel Poulet, vc).