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PERGOLESI L'Olimpiade

Metastasio’s libretto L’Olimpiade is an amorous intrigue that takes place at the ancient Olympic Games. First set to music in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2011

MOZART D'Arcangelo Arias

The sonorous bass-baritone of Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, with its oaken middle register and ringing top notes, is certainly an impressive instrument....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2011

MARTINŮ Symphonies Nos 1-6

When considering Martinu’s symphonies, two points are worth bearing in mind: first, that all six date from Martinu’s maturity; and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2011

Italia

Despite her Italian background, Nicola Benedetti, we’re told, “never expected to feel quite so at home” in the Italian Baroque...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2011

DEBUSSY La Mer. Nocturnes. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

A protégé of Markevitch and Boulez, Geneva-born Michel Tabachnik steers a sleek and dynamic course through La mer, drawing playing...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2011

BARBER Historical Recordings 1935-60

A treasure-trove of historic Barber recordings. The earliest and one of the best known is his own performance of Dover...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue:

Destination Paris

This mixed group of works for string trio were all written when the composers were living in Paris during that...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2011

ZEMLINSKY Cello Sonata. 2 Pieces for String quintet

The figure of Brahms loomed large over late-19th-century Austro-German composers, nowhere more so than in the field of chamber music....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2011

CERHA Bruchstück geträumt. Neun Bagatellen. Instants

Kairos’s previous Cerha release was anchored around the deep-listening fabric of his 1970s orchestral set Spiegel (A/10). It reminded us...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2011

PROKOFIEV Complete Piano Sonatas

This four-CD set of Prokofiev’s nine piano sonatas also includes several fist-shaking gestures for his early anti-Romanticism, complemented by other...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2011

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