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PANUFNIK Symphony No 5. Bassoon Concerto
The Sinfonia di Sfere, Panufnik’s Fifth, is of course the main attraction here. It’s a complex work architecturally, the ‘spheres’...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2014
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4
My reaction when asked to review this disc was a somewhat uncritical ‘hurray’, having immensely enjoyed the first volume of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2014
La bella più bella: Songs from early baroque Italy
The songs and madrigals of early-17th-century Italy are dramatic microcosms – arias from unwritten operas that carry the emotional and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2014
JS BACH Lutheran Masses Vol II
One of the most durable virtues of Harry Christophers and The Sixteen is the unfussy fluency of their musical endeavour...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2014
WAGNER Siegfried. Götterdämmerung
Daniel Barenboim’s celebration of the Wagner bicentenary culminated in the completion of a new Ring cycle, produced by Guy Cassiers,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2014
Mahan Esfahani: Byrd, Bach, Ligeti
A critic reviewing Mahan Esfahani’s 2013 Wigmore Hall recital of short pieces by Byrd, Bach and Ligeti (from which this...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014
HAYDN String Quartet Op 51, The Seven Last Words of Christ
The solemnities of Good Friday, enshrined with such intensity and contemplative sincerity by Haydn in his Seven Last Words, are...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
BRAHMS Complete Music for Cello and Piano
There are a few contemporary arrangements on these discs which render the title ‘Complete Works for Cello and Piano’ possibly...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014
BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas and Variations
A cellist who tends towards introversion; a fortepianist who tends the other way. Put them together and something magical happens...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2014
Odes, Songs, Sonatas &
I doubt if anyone has produced a disc of 18th-century domestic music from Birmingham before, but here now is one...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2014
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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