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HUMPERDINCK Hänsel und Gretel

Let us first praise conductor and orchestra. Ticciati’s Hänsel is at a completely other remove from the pseudo-Wagnerian Siegfried-and-Fafner-have-a-bumpy-day-in-the-woods-with-the-kids approach...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2012

Voyage en Russie

Time was when the French, with their love of understatement, stylistic elegance and clarity, looked askance at the Russian repertoire,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2012

The Manchester Gamba Book

Here, at last, is a recording of a significant portion of the Manchester Gamba Book, said to be the largest...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2012

RAFF Piano Works Vols 1 & 2

Until four years ago, only a handful of the more than 130 works Raff composed for solo piano were readily...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2012

RACHMANINOV Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op 3. Études-Tableaux, Op 33. Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42

This is a disc of paradoxes. The Armenian-born pianist Nareh Arghamanyan clearly experiences Rachmaninov’s music intensely. You can see as...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2012

G PROKOFIEV Cello Multitracks

Nonclassical continues its exploration of an alternative modern classicism with Gabriel Prokofiev’s Cello Multitracks – a dance suite for cello...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 10/2012

Christophe Rousset plays Marchand & Rameau

It was Louis Marchand who fled the abortive 1717 keyboard duel with Bach in Dresden. If contemporary accounts hold water...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2012

CHOPIN Complete Waltzes and Impromptus

Once spotlit after a dramatic move from Russia to America, Vladimir Feltsman quietly stepped out of the limelight to enjoy...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2012

bachCage

Francesco Tristano is a young pianist-composer born in Luxembourg who is making an international stir as a personality with his...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2012

JS BACH Partitas for solo violin Nos 2 & 3 AUERBACH par.ti.ta

A fascinating programme, in which the two more modern works have strong Bachian connections. Ysaÿe’s Second Sonata begins with a...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2012

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