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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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