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MEYERBEER Robert Le Diable

There are heaven and hell here for lovers of French opera, though unfortunately rather more of the latter. The operas...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2013

HANDEL Acis, Galatea and Polifemo

While the English pastoral Acis and Galatea has long been a favourite, its Neapolitan counterpart of 1708 is still a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2013

Bach to the Future

For his Orchid Classics debut, Ashley Wass puts together a mixed programme of works that are either by Bach or...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2013

Moura Lympany: The HMV Recordings 1947-1952

The previous discs I reviewed in APR’s engrossing series devoted to pupils of Tobias Matthay were those by the forgotten...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2013

WAGNER Edwin Lemare Organ Transcriptions

Jonathan Vaughn’s debut solo recording is not only a well-chosen bicentennial tribute to the genius of Wagner but a timely...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2013

MIASKOVSKY Piano Sonatas Nos 2-4

For Lydia Jardon, a passionately committed advocate, the piano sonatas of Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950), are ‘music of wrath’, a remark...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2013

MIYOSHI Piano Works

The piano works of Akira Miyoshi (b1933) may not be as well known as those of his late colleague and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2013

LISZT Piano transcriptions

Christopher O’Riley (b1956) is not your conventional concert pianist. In recital he mixes standard fare (Debussy, Rachmaninov et al) with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2013

GODOWSKY Piano Music Vol 2

Konstantin Scherbakov has been slowly working his way through the complete piano music of Leopold Godowsky since 1996. He has...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2013

ELLER 10 Lyric Pieces. Piano Sonata No 4

In any account of modern Estonian music, Heino Eller occupies a central position both creatively and culturally, his substantial output...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2013

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