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BRAHMS String Sextets 1 & 2

It makes an ideal coupling to have Brahms’s String Sextets, both charming works, on a single disc. It is striking...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos 1 & 7

Instruments are carefully balanced, sound is good. But this recording, originally in SACD format, would audibly have been a lot...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2015

BARTÓK Complete Music for Two Pianos

The oom pah figuration that launches Bartók’s Suite, Op 4 – which he arranged for two pianos in 1941 from...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

JS BACH Arrangements for Piano Duo

For their third Steinway & Sons release, the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo dedicate their uncanny ensemble prowess and canny...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015

Roberto Alagna: My Life is an Opera

A cynic might look at Roberto Alagna’s new disc, ‘My Life is an Opera’, and think, ‘At least he admits...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015

VERDI Opera Arias

A different branch of the record industry might have called this recital by the septuagenarian baritone ‘Leo Nucci unplugged’. For...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015

Roberta Invernizzi: Arias for Domenico Gizzi’

Glossa’s series investigating the careers of major Italian Baroque singers continues with an examination of the Neapolitan castrato Domenico Gizzi...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015

Piotr Beczala: The French Collection

Piotr Beczała has built up such good will amid potentially troublesome Metropolitan Opera productions – from the Las Vegas Rigoletto...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015

WAGNER Die Walküre

The first release on disc of this 1961 broadcast is a potent reminder of the strengths (and quirks) of Georg...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015

WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer

In his first production as Zurich Intendant, Andreas Homoki has gone all out to concentrate on the psychological and socio-political...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015

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