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MENDELSSOHN; BRITTEN Violin Concertos (Bohren)

Knowing Sebastian Bohren’s playing from his gripping recording of Hartmann’s Concerto funebre (6/17) and as leader of the superb Stradivari...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

BRAHMS Piano Quartet (Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Martin)

Schoenberg gives the first melodic phrase of Brahms’s G minor Piano Quartet to three clarinets (the common instrument in B...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

ARRIAGA Symphony in D minor. Overtures (Mena)

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 26) was 13 when he composed the opera Los esclavos felices. Only the overture survives,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

ADÈS Colette (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Thomas Adès has composed his first film score, for Colette, a biopic based on the Claudine novels by the French...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2019

L’opéra des opéra (Watson, Deshayes, Van Mechelen)

In 1671 Lully assembled a Ballet des ballets, a pasticcio made up of excerpts from his own works. Here Benoît...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2019

Xavier Sabata: L'Alessandro Amante

Xavier Sabata has taken Alexander the Great as the subject of his latest recital, a carefully programmed and finely executed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY The Queen of Spades (Fedoseyev)

Three quotes head the booklet note for this Melodiya recording of The Queen of Spades – by Alexander Pushkin, Pyotr...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2019

ROTA La notte du un nevrastenico. I due timidi (Bonolis)

Unsurprisingly, the man who scored The Godfather knew how to get hearts racing in the opera house. Nino Rota’s best-known...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019

MESSAGER Ls P'tites Michu (Dumoussaud)

Many people know the Donkey duet (‘Trot here and there’) from Véronique, an opéra comique staged at the Bouffes-Parisiens in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2019

LORENZANI Nicandro e Fileno

The Roman Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) was the only Italian musician other than Lully to hold a court post during the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2019

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