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TURINA Complete Trios

Ironically, Turina’s conversion to his native musical roots took place not in Spain but in Paris. Arriving in what was...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2011

JOHNSTON String Quartets Nos 1, 5 & 10

Ben Johnston’s got to be some kind of genius. Anyone who can simultaneously make a string quartet sound like a...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 07/2011

Music for the Queen of Scots

Among the hardest challenges in all music must be to keep over an hour’s worth of recorder quartet-playing alive without...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2011

SCHUMANN Complete Piano Trios

“It would be idle to pretend they are among his best works, for they all date from the years when...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2011

CHAUSSON; DEBUSSY; WIDOR Piano Trios

An enterprising programme here from the Trio Paian. I’ve long had a great affection for Chausson’s only Piano Trio, written...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2011

LISZT Piano Sonata, S178

The pianist, we are told in the booklet biography, is an artist whose “consummate technique enables her to coax unimaginable...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2011

JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas

Listening to the opening of the First Sonata’s Adagio, played with little vibrato and flexible interpretation of the ornamental flourishes,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 07/2011

René Pape sings Wagner

There is a long tradition of singers graduating from the Wagnerian bel canto of Wolfram in Tannhäuser to the more...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2011

VERDI 'Opera Scenes'

If you stumbled upon this live concert recording under the clandestine circumstances of some blog, the insider status would override...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2011

Wagner and Me

This absorbing documentary ends as Stephen Fry enters the Bayreuth Festival Theatre for a 2009 performance. His last words to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2011

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