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BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Op 70/2; Op 97
There has been something of a flurry of Beethoven piano trios coming my way over the past couple of months....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2012
Nordic Sounds
Do not be put off a programme by unfamiliar names. This is such a choral feast that one can only...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2012
Most Grand to Die
Success as Hans Sachs at Bayreuth has probably won James Rutherford a higher profile on the other side of the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2012
Insomnia: A Nocturnal Voyage in Song
Part of the fun in themed recitals comes from the selection and juxtaposition of the songs. William Berger’s ‘Insomnia’ is...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2012
Ay Portugal
La Compañia is one of Australia’s finest and best-known early music ensembles and Iberian music has already been in evidence...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2012
VIVALDI New Discoveries Vol II
Musicology and the recording industry are sometimes uneasy bedfellows, particularly in relation to early repertories. Dodgy reconstructions of music for...
Reviewed in issue 11/2012
VICTORIA Officium Defunctorum
Philippe Herreweghe’s conception of Victoria’s six-voice Requiem (the more famous of the two settings he composed) imparts a sense of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2012
RUEHR Choral Works
Three American poets supply the texts for this enterprising release of music by Michigan-born, Juilliard-trained Elena Ruehr (b1963). She is...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2012
RAVEL Mélodies
The emancipation of the human voice in terms of communicating the intricacies and inflections of the French language is comprehensively...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012
MENDELSSOHN Elijah
I’m not a fan of filmed concerts but I do wish this recording had been made for DVD, as the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012
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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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
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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