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Paganini’s Daemon: A Most Enduring Legend

The meaning of the title escapes me; the booklet contends that ‘[Paganini] served his daemon with commitment and dedication’. Both...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2011

MAHLER Symphony No 9 - 1st Mvmt FELDMAN Piano

Edition Laura’s clumsy booklet-note may gorge on hard-sell schlock – ‘the tension [in Mahler’s Ninth Symphony] between the single creative...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011

LISZT Piano Works

Here, in a magisterial contribution to this celebratory year, is a pianist born for Liszt’s rhetorical grandeur. All these performances,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2011

LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

‘Greater than Horowitz, he combines the precision of a metronome with the electrical discharge of a thunderstorm.’ Such was the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2011

IVES Violin Sonatas Nos 1-4

When a star such as Hilary Hahn takes on the Ives violin-and-piano sonatas it has to be special. These four...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2011

CZERNY Piano Sonatas

Pupil, friend and protégé of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt, Czerny composed more than a thousand compositions that have, sadly,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2011

Liaisons: Arias by Cimarosa, Haydn, Mozart and Salieri

What a stimulating assemblage of arias, and in intelligent, standard-setting performances. Soprano Chen Reiss creates a rewarding vocal cross section...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2011

Jauchzet Dem Herr: The Psalms of David in 17th Century Northern Germany

Finely adorned with Rubens’s study of King David with his harp, this release focuses on 17th-century north German psalm-settings for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2011

FROTTOLE Songs from the courts of Renaissance Italy

The Modena Consort basically comprises four players of Renaissance flute. Not, on the face of it, a very promising ensemble...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2011

Victoria Sacred Works

With the year drawing to a close, at last there comes a project worthy in scope of one of the...

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