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MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words

Perhaps more than most of Mendelssohn’s output, the Songs Without Words have contributed to the saccharine image that history has...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014

Bianconi plays Chopin

Philippe Bianconi has not enjoyed an exactly high-profile career since winning the silver medal at the Seventh Van Cliburn International...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014

BRIAN Complete Piano Music

Although this is the second CD issue devoted to Havergal Brian’s complete piano music, it was the first to be...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 2. Variations. 3 Intermezzi

Brahms’s F sharp minor Sonata is at the heart of Jonathan Plowright’s second volume of the composer’s complete piano works....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2014

BEETHOVEN; SCRIABIN; ARAPOV Piano Sonatas

The microphone has been Sokolov’s declared enemy for some while, in the concert hall as well as the studio, so...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2014

JS BACH Cello Suites

Viola de Hoog was the cellist of the Schoenberg Quartet. However, alongside her affinity with the music of the Second...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2014

Lisa Houben: Vieni, amor mio!

This CD comprises Italian love songs by composers better known for their operas. Surprisingly, they include few that are well-known,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2014

Ostsee: Church Music by Bertouch, Theile & Vierdanck

‘Bertouch’s distinction did not lie in producing music of intrinsic value or interest.’ It takes chutzpah to dismiss the composer...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2014

The Medici Castrato

Gualberto Magli (d1625) was one of the great voices of his age. In 1608 he sang at the wedding celebrations...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2014

A Recital With Renée Fleming

Here Renée Fleming joins a long line of star recitalists falling victim to later-career stage affectation. Though Maria Callas can’t...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2014

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