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MOZART Le nozze di Figaro

Here, nicely in time for its first revival, is last year’s Glyndebourne Figaro. Updated to the 1960s, it’s difficult to...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2013

KALITZKE Die Besessenen

Die Besessenen (‘The Possessed’) is based on a 1930s novel by Witold Gombrowicz whose bizarre and lurid plot suggests affiliations...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2013

Conrad Tao: Voyages

‘Conrad Tao has already accomplished more than most musicians do in a lifetime,’ proclaims EMI’s website. To demonstrate Tao’s eclectic...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2013

Jenny Lin: Get Happy

I first came across the Taiwanese-American pianist Jenny Lin in 2002 on a terrific Chinese-themed disc for BIS. Lin doesn’t...

Reviewed in issue 08/2013

John Tilbury plays Cardew and Sikorski

In 1961 the London-born pianist John Tilbury – an associate of Cornelius Cardew and Howard Skempton – relocated to Warsaw...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2013

SCHUMANN Études symphoniques Op 13. Fantasiestücke Op 12

Right from the opening notes of Freddy Kempf’s new Schumann disc, you grasp what his approach will be, for his...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2013

MOMPOU Piano Works

Who would have imagined Arcadi Volodos in Mompou? Celebrated in outsize virtuoso repertoire and for his cool take on the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013

LISZT Piano Sonata

A programme of familiar Liszt made thrillingly unfamiliar. Expert Liszt Sonatas may be thick on the ground but few are...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013

ESPLÁ Music for Piano

Few pianists take a more honoured position in Spain’s musical life than Martin Jones. He now adds to his Iberian...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 4

For once the hyperbole rings true. Christian Leotta’s fourth volume of Beethoven sonatas is indeed ‘a major addition to other...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013

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