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BELLINI I Puritani (Benzi)

melodrama? Like poor Elvira, betrothed to an uninteresting Puritan but drawn to the riskier chap with the fancy hat and...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2019

AUBER La Sirène (Reiland)

For Naxos’s booklet to describe La Sirène (1844) as Auber’s 14th most popular work hardly raises expectations. But this little...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2019

COUPERIN Complete Works for Harpsichord (Carole Cerasi)

A recording of the complete harpsichord music of François Couperin is a major project in any circumstances. But to record...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2019

Lang Lang: Piano Book

After his Swiss watch and perfume (‘Essence of my music’), Lang Lang’s latest branding exercise concerns piano education. The Lang...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2019

DEAN Oblique Strategies (Andrei Ioniță)

With one possible exception, this is a masterstroke in programming from the Romanian BBC New Generation Artist Andrei Ioniţă but...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2019

Alain Lefèvre: My Paris Years

Despite his robust discography, this was my introduction to the work of the French Canadian pianist Alain Lefèvre. Titled ‘My...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2019

Martin James Bartlett: Love and Death

It is five years since Martin James Bartlett won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, impressing not merely...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2019

WEINBERG 24 Preludes (Gidon Kremer)

The centenary of Mieczysaw Weinberg’s birth augurs a wealth of significant new recordings, one of which is undoubtedly this release...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2019

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. 4 Impromptus (Buniatishvili)

The Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, now just into her thirties, is an artist of strong convictions but it is still...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

RAVEL Complete Works for Solo Piano (Håkon Austbø)

Given the consistent pianistic and stylistic excellence of his Janáček, Scriabin and Messiaen cycles and stimulating Chopin Ballades (9/15), Håkon...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2019

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