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DUKAS Ariane et Barbe-Bleue

The familiarity of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice seems to have detracted from recognition of one of the major French operas of...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 04/2013

BRITTEN The Rape of Lucretia

This performance springs into life from the opening bars. Ian Bostridge is on top form as the Male Chorus, engagingly...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2013

DEBUSSY Préludes - Books 1 & 2 (complete)

If you are looking for a reaction to Gieseking’s opalescent if often careless magic or to Krystian Zimerman’s crystalline alternative,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012

Debussy_Solo Piano Music

Angela Hewitt was widely acclaimed for her recording of Ravel’s solo piano music a few years ago. Debussy, however, is...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012

DEBUSSY Complete Works for Solo Piano

Debussy may have been a revolutionary but he was also the most deeply introspective of composers. Like Robert Graves in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012

COUPERIN Works for Harpsichord

Go back to Blandine Verlet’s recordings of various Couperin Ordres from the late 1970s and you hear a distinct temperament...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2012

CHOPIN Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise. Etudes. Nocturnes. Waltzes

It was just a matter of time before the world’s most popular classical pianist devoted an entire CD to the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012

CAGE Music of Changes. Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

David Tudor’s dedication to Cage’s work at a crucial stage from the 1950s can only be described as saintly. He...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas

Harmonia Mundi must like Beethoven’s piano sonatas. As if Paul Lewis’s complete cycle wasn’t enough, the label now presents Javier...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2

Having recorded Bach’s core keyboard works during his contract with Decca in the 1980s, András Schiff began revisiting this repertoire...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012

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