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STEFFANI Niobe, Regina di Tebe
We have only just welcomed the Boston Early Music Festival’s groundbreaking account of Steffani’s Niobe (Munich, 1688), and now another...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015
SALLINEN Chamber Music
In his Piano Trio, completed in 2010, Aulis Sallinen imagined ‘the sensuous world of a painter going blind’. It seems...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015
CHOPIN Rondos and Fantasy
Chopin’s four rondos for solo piano make a pleasant sequence. In the first two we can see him struggling to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012
THORESEN Himmelkvad
Berit Opheim Versto | Nordic Voices
Hard on the heels of Simax’s issue of his solo violin piece Yr (5/12) comes a whole disc devoted to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2012
Liszt Piano Sonata; Schumann Humoreske
Judging by this disc, 2010 Gilmore Artist Kirill Gerstein appears to be as intelligent, accomplished and sensitive a virtuoso as...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 3/2011
TCHAIKOVSKY; CHOPIN Piano Concertos No 1
Ingolf Wunder | St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Ingolf Wunder first came to public attention in 2010 when he was awarded joint second prize in the International Chopin...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014
BEETHOVEN The complete piano sonatas Vol 7 (Roscoe)
Martin Roscoe began his traversal of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas in 2010, billed as the first complete recording of the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018
AHO Trombone Concerto. Trumpet Concerto (Brabbins)
Alain de Rudder | Antwerp Symphony Orchestra | Jörgen Van Rijen | Martyn Brabbins
He may be best known for his cycle of (so far) 17 symphonies but Kalevi Aho, who turns 70 this...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019
CERHA Nacht. 3 Orchestra Pieces
Although Kairos’s rate of production has decreased in the past few years, the Viennese label still regularly releases discs of...
Reviewed in issue 08/2016
ZEMLINKSY A Florentine Tragedy
Bertrand de Billy | Heidi Brunner | Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra | Wolfgang Koch
Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie, completed in 1916, may not have the despairing intensity that distinguishes his subsequent opera, Der Zwerg,...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2018
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