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Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
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SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 19 & 20. Impromptu D899 No 3
Seven years have passed since Inon Barnatan’s impressive performance of Schubert’s last sonata (Bridge, A/06), one in which Bryce Morrison...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2013
JS BACH Goldberg Variations
For his second Nonesuch project, Jeremy Denk follows in the footsteps of hundreds of pianists before him who have essayed...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2013
VIVALDI Catone in Utica
Ciccolini revives Vivaldi’s 1737 opera with reconstructed Act 1...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
Arias for Farinelli
Philippe Jaroussky’s conceptual recital unveils Porpora’s music for his pupil Farinelli. Frédéric Delaméa provides a fascinating essay about the overlapping...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
WEBER Der Freischütz
This whole idea falls on the fundamental misapprehension that a stage work is some kind of imperfect shorthand form just...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
WAGNER Rienzi
‘Only the very wise can so clearly perceive the very obvious’ was one thought when the 81 year-old stage director...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
WAGNER Das Rheingold
Like the first instalment of the Mariinsky Ring (Die Walküre, 5/13), this recording of Das Rheingold is the result of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2013
RAVEL L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. l’Heure Espagnole
L’heure espagnole was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in 1911, coupled with the first Parisian production of Massenet’s Thérèse. L’enfant et...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2013
PUCCINI La Fanciulla del West
They have a good reason for mounting a new production of La fanciulla del West at the Royal Swedish Opera,...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2013
NONO Intolleranza
In April 1961 Venice’s august Fenice opera house witnessed the explosive premiere of Luigi Nono’s ‘azione scenica’ Intolleranza 1960. What...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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