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DONIZETTI Belisario

The premiere of Belisario took place at La Fenice, Venice, in 1836. The libretto was by Salvadore Cammarano, with whom...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2013

Sofya Gulyak Recital

Sofya Gulyak, who has won first prizes in many competitions, including both the William Kapell in Maryland and the Leeds,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2013

Fernando Germani at Selby Abbey

In the early 1960s the great Italian virtuoso Fernando Germani recorded three LPs for HMV at Selby Abbey. They became...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2013

STANFOD Complete Organ Works Vol 1

The choral music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford has not so much remained in the repertoire of British cathedral and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2013

SCHUMANN Waldszenen. Piano Sonata No 2

Uchida and Schumann are a wonderful match: she conveys his febrile qualities with such naturalness, as was vividly demonstrated in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013

SCHUBERT Impromptus, 17 Ländler

Cordelia Williams was winner of the keyboard final of the 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year, a competition that,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013

PAGANINI 24 Caprices

If we agree that mastering and then recording the Paganini Caprices is the violinist’s version of climbing Everest, and acknowledge...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2013

MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 2, 8, 9 & 17

The first four Ws (Who, What, Where, When) seemed clear-cut: Christian Blackshaw plays Mozart sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2012....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2013

LISZT Mephisto Waltz No 1. 3 Liebesträume

Following his earlier Delphian disc of the B minor Sonata (A/07), David Wilde continues with Liszt, complementing the first Mephisto...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2013

HOWELLS From Salisbury

Gramophone readers may have listened to a piece of music and experienced ‘love at first hearing’. Other works might need...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2013

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