Lucas Debargue plays Bach, Beethoven and Medtner

Lucas Debargue

The French pianist Lucas Debargue was snapped up by Sony after the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition. Not because he won it,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2016

CHOPIN Preludes SCHUBERT Klavierstücke PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 7

Yulianna Avdeeva

Four years after winning the 2010 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw – the first woman to do so since Martha...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Saraste)

Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jukka-Pekka Saraste

This recording of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, taped during a live concert in 2010, is distinguished by Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s brisk, focused...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2017

ROSSINI Armida

Adam Smith | Alberto Zedda | Carmen Romeu | Dario Schmunck | Enea Scala | Leonard Bernad | Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp/Ghent Chorus | Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp/Ghent Orchestra | Robert McPherson

The tale of Rinaldo the Crusader knight caught in the toils of the sorceress Armida had been popular with composers...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2017

WHITLEY I Am I Say

Asher Zaccardelli | Ashley Riches | Choirs from Kender, Lyndhurst and John Donne Primary Schools | Christopher Stark | Eloise-Fleur Thom | Rolf Hind | Sarah-Jane Lewis | Shiry Rashkovsky | The Multi-Story Orchestra

If not an unknown quantity, Kate Whitley (b1989) is still little known on the wider UK music scene and this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017

JS BACH English Suite No 2. Overture in the French Style

Yulianna Avdeeva

After mixed recitals featuring Chopin (with whom she has been associated since winning the 2010 Chopin Competition), Yulianna Avdeeva now turns her...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017

ESCAICH 6 Etudes-Chorales

Four Bach works alternate with five of Thomas Ospital’s own improvisations and a set of six Études-Chorals by Thierry Escaich....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2018

LAITMAN Are Women People?

Andrew Rosenblum | Daniel Belcher | Fourth Coast Ensemble | Kyle Knapp | Maria Sumareva | Maureen McKay | Nicole Cabell | Tarn Travers

Lori Laitman (b1955) is one of America’s most prolific art-song composers, with an impressive catalogue of recordings from several labels,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2021

Puccini Tosca

Alfredo Mariotti | Ernesto Gavazzi | Ernesto Panariello | Giovanni Battista Parodi | Leo Nucci | Maria Guleghina | Milan La Scala Chorus | Milan La Scala Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Salvatore Licitra

In March 2000 Riccardo Muti conducted a staged performance of Tosca for the first time, only the second Puccini opera...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2003

Bruckner Symphony No 4

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Bernard Haitink | Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The Muti is so patently an essay in what he can effectively do with the Berlin Philharmonic, Bruckner's Fourth Symphony...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1986