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JANÁČEK The Makropulos Affair

A perplexing issue. The performance has class. The Vienna Philharmonic now play this score with greater naturalness and virtuosity than...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2012

CAVALLI Il Giasone

Seventeenth-century purists abhorred Giasone for playing fast and loose with the myth of the Golden Fleece, and for juxtaposing high...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2012

Sketches of Mexico

UK-based Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski has already shown himself to be a gifted musical collaborator – witness his work with...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2012

Menahem Pressler in Recital

After many years as the pianist in the celebrated Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler made a dramatic return to his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2012

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 6

Here is a good-themed programme from this 20-year-old Uzbek newcomer of ‘demonic dances, God and war, combining technical virtuosity with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012

USTVOLSKAYA Piano Sonatas Nos 1-6

Markus Hinterhäuser’s complete Ustvolskaya piano sonata cycle, recorded in 1998, never did quite cut the mustard like Marianne Schroeder’s 1994...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 08/2012

TELEMANN 12 Fantasies for Solo Violin

These 12 Fantasias, which together comprise 41 high-Baroque morsels, fall into two sets of six: the first largely sorrowful and...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2012

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Volume 3

Marc-André Hamelin’s third Haydn volume reaches a halfway mark in 60 or so sonatas of tireless range, wit and inventiveness....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2012

HAUER Etudes, Op 22

Josef Matthias Hauer was the early-20th-century Austrian atonal composer who wasn’t Arnold Schoenberg. At one stage the two were chummy...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 08/2012

DEBUSSY Piano Music Vol 1

Were you to hear for the first time Debussy’s 12 Preludes, Book 1, in the hands of Michael Korstick you...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012

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