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Baiba Skride ‘has this rare quality of discovering the music as we play’, says conductor Eivind Aadland. ‘I know that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20
In old age Haydn retained a soft spot for his ‘Times of Day’ trilogy, his first works for the Esterházy...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW20
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, here under the directorship of Georg Kallweit, return in full vigour in this follow-up...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW20
Camargo Guarnieri is one of Brazil’s most interesting composers. While Villa-Lobos is far more present in the public imagination, there...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW20
A full 16 years elapsed between the first and second volumes of Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players’ exploration...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20
'The real purpose of using a small orchestra’, Thomas Dausgaard told Gramophone’s Andrew Mellor regarding his recording of Brahms’s Second...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW20
Russian-born and resident in Sweden since 1993, Victoria Borisova-Ollas was a pupil of Nikolai Korndorf. He was the Soviet maverick...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20
Symphonist to the Revolution vs revolutionary symphonist: Les Siècles and their founder-maestro have put flesh on the bones of a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20
We know a lot about how Beethoven composed at the keyboard, and right from the clipped, slashed and rolled tutti...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet first crossed my radar in 2005 with a striking Liszt recital on MDG that contained, among other gems,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW20
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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
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Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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