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BERLIOZ Les Nuits d'été. Harold en Italie

Hector Berlioz’s six songs (1840-41) setting the poetry of his friend Théophile Gautier were published together merely for the sake...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2023

BABBITT Works for Treble Voice & Piano

On this welcome complete collection of Milton Babbitt’s music for high voice and piano, the signal work for me is...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 01/2023

Rachel Podger: Tutta sola

Since making standard-setting recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas (7/99, 12/99), Rachel Podger has returned intermittently to the solo violin...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2023

George Xiaoyuan Fu: Mirrors

It is very much the fashion for young pianists to record multi-movement suites by a single composer and intersperse pieces...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023

Una Bourne: Australian Recording Pioneer – HMV Recordings 1914-1926

To those names who, early on, represented Australian musical talent abroad, the soprano Nellie Melba (1861-1931) and pianist-composer Percy Grainger...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2023

SPRATLAN Invasion - Music 'and Art for Ukraine'

Just as 9/11 prompted a wave of commemorative works, so is the Russian invasion of Ukraine now doing. Lewis Spratlan’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

MOZART Piano Sonatas K279-284 & 309 (Angela Hewitt)

With this double album of the first seven canonic sonatas, Angela Hewitt extends her foray into Mozart begun in 2011...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2023

MACDOWELL Piano Sonatas 1 & 2. Woodland Sketches (Giorgio Trione Bartoli)

There seems to be no other recording currently available of this particular programme. All four of Edward MacDowell’s sonatas have...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2023

LISZT Transcendental Études (Alim Beisembayev)

First impressions are important. While they do not always provide a definitive guide to what follows, they cannot help but...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2023

HAYDN Keyboard Works, Vol 1 (Peter Donohoe)

Hard on the heels of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s critically acclaimed intégrale comes Peter Donohoe’s two-disc album, the first volume presumably in...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2023

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