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BIBER Fidicinium sacro-profanum, Sonatas I-XII

First-class recordings of Biber’s Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas are hardly rarities but there are fewer sets of Fidicinium sacro-profanum (Les Plaisirs...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014

BERG Lyric Suite SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

Composers can increase exposure – and income – by promoting orchestral versions of chamber compositions. But orchestras usually employ conductors;...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos 6 & 7

Nannette Streicher’s new piano was a six-octave godsend for Beethoven. And the next year, 1808, he ran the full gamut...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2014

ARENSKY Piano Trios

This is the seventh in Hyperion’s series of Arensky discs, beautifully erasing Rimsky-Korsakov’s write-off (for him, Arensky was doomed to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014

Jean-Christophe Spinosi: Miroirs

When Jean-Christophe Spinosi backed away from his specialty as a Vivaldi conductor a few years ago, one never envisioned him...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014

The Italian Character

‘The Italian Character,’ reads the DVD’s blurb, ‘is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014

VIVALDI The Four Seasons

In December 1987 Gramophone’s Edward Greenfield warmly reviewed Michala Petri’s landmark recorder version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, at the same...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2014

VIVALDI 'Concerti per archi II'

Artist biographies do not usually outweigh the essay in booklets for Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition but it is fair to concede...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014

VIVALDI Tromba Veneziana

Not even in the heady days of Maurice André’s voluminous transcriptions of Baroque sonatas and concertos for Erato (all available...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2014

SIBELIUS Symphonies 6 & 7

The opening pages of the Sixth Symphony always sound to me like we’re looking at an illuminated manuscript – a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2014

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