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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

VERDI Un giorno di regno

After the success of his first opera, Oberto, Verdi was contracted to write three more for La Scala. Sad to...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015

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