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Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
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BEETHOVEN String Quartets Opp 127 & 59/2
Not perfunctory but not penetrating either. The Quartetto di Cremona are equal to technical demands but often wary of total...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2014
TCHIAKOVSKY; ARENSKY Piano Trios
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio set the example for Russian composers, perhaps with memories of Glinka’s Trio pathétique, of the medium as...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2014
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. Prince Rostislav
Vasily Petrenko rounds off his cycle of Rachmaninov symphonies for Warner (formerly EMI) Classics with this characteristically articulate and highly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2014
GRIEG Piano Concerto PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3
This unusual coupling works by contrast, the Grieg’s overt lyricism offset by the more feisty, wintry fairy-tale magic of the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
ANDERSON Fantasias. The Crazed Moon. The Discovery of Heaven
Julian Anderson (b1967) is Mark-Anthony Turnage’s successor as the London Philharmonic’s resident composer. While his own music is not untouched...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
SULLIVAN The Beauty Stone
It was a sad day for Sullivan when his ‘romantic musical drama’ The Beauty Stone ran for only 50 performances...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2014
Marina Rebeka: Mozart Arias
'A Latvian soprano who has dazzled audiences in New York and Vienna with her impassioned performance of Donna Anna,’ proclaims...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2014
EÖTVÖS Love and Other Demons
With his long experience as conductor and composer, Peter Eötvös will have been well aware of other operas centring on...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2014
La vallée des cloches
Bells and birds seem to be the subtext of Momo Kodama’s recital but her playing does not consistently ring out...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014
BACH Chorale Preludes ARMSTRONG Fantasy on B-A-C-H
Kit Armstrong opens his solo debut for Sony with a nearly-half-hour sequence of Bach chorale preludes. The pianist basically presents...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue:
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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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