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Review of MAHLER Symphony No 9 - 1st Mvmt FELDMAN Piano

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

Review of LISZT Piano Works

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

Review of LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

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

Review of IVES Violin Sonatas Nos 1-4

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

Review of CZERNY Piano Sonatas

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

Review of Liaisons: Arias by Cimarosa, Haydn, Mozart and Salieri

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

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

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

Review of FROTTOLE Songs from the courts of Renaissance Italy

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

Review of Victoria Sacred Works

Victoria Sacred Works

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

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue:

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Review of MacMILLAN Miserere. Strathclyde motets. O bone Jesu

MacMILLAN Miserere. Strathclyde motets. O bone Jesu

Dedicated to Harry Christophers, who directed The Sixteen in the first performance at the Flanders Festival in August 2009, Miserere...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2011

 

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