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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
CHOPIN; LISZT; RAVEL Piano works
Benjamin Grosvenor is not only the first British pianist to be signed by Decca since the days of Clifford Curzon,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2011
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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