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HANDEL L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV55

Milton’s pair of poems characterising the polarised opposites of Mirth (‘L’Allegro’) and Melancholy (‘Il Penseroso’) were identified as a subject...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2013

RAVEL Complete Piano Music

Few complete cycles of Ravel’s piano music include La valse and La parade. Both feature in François Dumont’s two-disc set;...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10

CHOPIN Etudes – Op 10; Op 25

When, if ever, have you heard the Chopin Etudes played as pure music, given as naturally as breathing yet recreated...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2013

JS BACH Clavier-Übung III, BWV669-89

On the title-page to this, the only one of his own publications designated specifically for the organ, Bach dedicates its...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2016

Night Sessions

The Dowland Project, the experimental ensemble which re-examines the performing and improvising processes inherent in early music, left Dowland behind...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW13

Early Birds

From the hyperactive nightingale in Pietro Torri’s opera Ismene at the start to her impatient sister as portrayed by Telemann...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW13

ROSSINI Petite Messe solennelle

More than 40 years have passed since Wolfgang Sawallisch directed a well-nigh perfect realisation of this most original of Mass...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW13

Sacred Verdi

Four years on from their award-winning recording of the Requiem (EMI, 10/09), Sir Antonio Pappano and his Roman forces have...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW13

GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2

If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And Denis Matsuev has certainly got ‘it’ – whatever that magic, unteachable ingredient is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW13

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Few conductors record Brahms’s symphonies so early in their discographic careers. But with a conceptual title such as ‘Beloved Brahms’,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW13

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