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Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice
Here we have a curious mixture: an 'authentic' text—the original Italian version is followed, with none of the additions (even...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1991
Vivaldi - (The) French Connection, Vol 2
Adrian Chandler | Gail Hennessy | Katy Bircher | La Serenissima | Peter Whelan
The film The French Connection had a sequel, so why not indeed the Vivaldi CD? Having won a 2010 Gramophone...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2011
Bennett My Broken Machines
Con Tempo Quartet | Decibel | Fidelio Trio | Garth Knox | Paul Roe
There’s a vein of power minimalism running through Irish composer Ed Bennett’s work that troubles me. Listening to the super-smart,...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011
SWEENEY Sonata for Cello and Piano. Tree o' Licht
Erkki Lahesmaa | Fali Pavrí | Robert Irvine
He may have been overshadowed (at least south of the border) by younger contemporary James MacMillan, but William Sweeney (b1950)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2013
HOSOKAWA Horn Concerto. Piano Concerto. Chant
Anssi Karttunen | Jun Märkl | Momo Kodama | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Stefan Dohr
A long sustained note, passing imperceptibly to the horn around 1'20", and surrounded by distant percussion, puts us firmly in...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2014
MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words
Brautigam is, if not the foremost, certainly the most prolific of today’s fortepiano specialists, with complete cycles of Mozart, Haydn...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013
RUEHR Choral Works
Marguerite Krull | Novus NY | Stephen Salters | Trinity Choir
Three American poets supply the texts for this enterprising release of music by Michigan-born, Juilliard-trained Elena Ruehr (b1963). She is...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2012
MYSLIVEČEK Medonte
It is the unenviable fate of any composer who was active in the 1770s to be compared to Mozart. In...
Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 07/2013
STRAUSS Salome
It’s taken a little while for this Salome, filmed at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale in early 2010, to make it to...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
SEABOURNE Steps Volume 4: Libro di Canti Italiano
Previous releases of piano music from Peter Seabourne (9/13) gave notice of a composer wholly at ease in the solo...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2014
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