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Review of LISZT Piano Works

LISZT Piano Works

Here is a recital with a difference – the choice of repertoire sufficiently wide-ranging to give an optimum view of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2013

Review of IRELAND Piano Music

IRELAND Piano Music

I do feel that Ireland is one of those composers whose music does not benefit from intégrale recording projects. Individually,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013

Review of GRIFFES Piano Music

GRIFFES Piano Music

Charles Tomlinson Griffes died in 1920 at the age of 35. He’d spent four years studying in Germany and came...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 06/2013

Review of JS BACH Organ Masterworks Vol 3

JS BACH Organ Masterworks Vol 3

This is an enjoyable Bach recital, cleanly played and nicely recorded on one of the great organs of our time....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2013

Review of JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5 (arranged for viola)

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5 (arranged for viola)

Whereas it could be argued that Antoine Tamestit’s recording of Bach’s violin music (Ambroisie, 8/07) became a little too throaty...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2013

Review of JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006

JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006

This latest two-disc recording of the monumental Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas sets new standards. Performing on an 18th-century...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2013

Review of WAGNER Arias

WAGNER Arias

The ultimate curate’s egg. I have admired watching and hearing Vogt as Lohengrin and in Katharina Wagner’s important Meistersinger. Yet...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2013

Review of TELEMANN Cantatas & Arias

TELEMANN Cantatas & Arias

Anyone attracted to early-18th-century German Baroque music beyond Bach will admire Telemann’s fertile melodiousness and exquisite craftsmanship but Dorothee Mields’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013

Review of SONDHEIM Sweeney Todd

SONDHEIM Sweeney Todd

Why are they always trying to drag Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd kicking and screaming into the opera house and concert hall?...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2013

Review of MONTEVERDI Orfeo

MONTEVERDI Orfeo

Any work from the dawn of opera comes with many performance practice decisions but Orfeo, in particular, is heard within...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013


 

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