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KORNGOLD Die Tote Stadt

The sheer orchestral seductiveness – or (according to taste) wearying-ness – of Korngold’s opera must be hard to match on...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2014

CHERUBINI Medea

When Maria Callas sang Medea for the first time at Florence in 1953 (and continued with the role until the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2014

BERLIOZ Les Troyens

It’s Covent Garden, more than any other company in the world, that deserves the credit for restoring – or, rather,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2014

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 13 & 17

Benjamin Hochman’s Avie solo debut frames two fascinating and relatively unfamiliar contemporary Schubert tributes between two frequently recorded Schubert sonatas....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014

Blue Clavichord: 20th Century Music for Clavichord, Harpsichord and Recorder

Peter Dickinson must love his clavichord and its ability to bend pitches, because the music he writes and arranges for...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014

JS BACH Transcriptions

Note to self: early contender for Gramophone instrumental record of the year. Why? The recorded piano sound is a real...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014

Alexandre Tharaud: Autograph

Alexander Tharaud’s ‘Autographs’ are a series of musical signatures very much ‘as you like it’; a programme to suit all...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014

Pletnev in Person

It’s Mikhail Pletnev. So there is another view – wrought from an intensely personal response to phrasing and structure; and...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2014

WIDOR Organ Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Wading through the assemblage of quotations and oblique references which constitute the booklet-notes for this latest release in Joseph Nolan’s...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2014

STEVENSON Passacaglia on DSCH

Here we have the seventh commercially released recording of Ronald Stevenson’s 1962 Passacaglia on DSCH, based on the four-note D-E...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014

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