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Richard Bonynge: Complete Ballet Recordings (45 Discs)

Richard Bonynge turned 90 last September, an anniversary marked by the release of this set of his complete ballet recordings...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2021

Sirius Quartet: Playing on the Edge Vol 2

I warmly commended the Sirius Quartet’s previous album, ‘Playing on the Edge’ (11/19US), for their fine ensemble and innovative programming,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

KARCHIN Five Compositions (2009-2019)

While all of Louis Karchin’s music here is highly enjoyable and rewarding for both participants and listeners, the most memorable...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2021

DEHLINGER 'At That Hour' - Art Songs

Henry Dehlinger is a gifted and versatile musician. As a pianist of exceptional fluency, he has teamed with soprano Danielle...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2021

CUNNINGHAM Proscenium Moments

I welcomed Navona Records’ ninth disc devoted to the music of Michael G Cunningham (b1937) last May, archival recordings of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

BRAHMS Last Piano Pieces (Victor Rosenbaum)

Victor Rosenbaum begins the first of Brahms’s Op 117 Intermezzos at a brisk pace, bringing cross-rhythmic lines to the fore....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

Linda Richardson: Italian Opera Arias

Between 1998 and 2010 Chandos issued, under its ‘Opera in English’ banner, a series of operatic recital discs featuring a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2021

WUORINEN Haroun and the Sea of Stories

A 12-note opera – for children? Well, yes, and rather good it is, too! Charles Wuorinen, who died in March...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

VIVALDI Argippo (Biondi)

In 2008 the harpsichordist Ondřej Macek made a valiant attempt to reconstruct Vivaldi’s lost Argippo (Prague, 1730), itself a revision...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2021

ROSSINI Matilde di Shabran (Pérez-Sierra)

‘It was really enough, more than enough. The entire performance was like an idolatrous orgy; everyone acted there as if...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2021

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