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STRADELLA La Doriclea (De Carlo)

In 1938 a manuscript copy of La Doriclea was found in Rieti (a small town in the Sabine hills) by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2019

RAMEAU Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour (Brown)

The Festivities of Hymen and Cupid was the second collaboration between Rameau and the librettist Louis de Cahusac. It began...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2019

FALLA La vida breve (Mena)

Juanjo Mena’s recording of La vida breve was made in tandem with a concert performance, one of his last as...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2019

BRUCH Die Loreley (Blunier)

Emanuel Geibel’s libretto to Die Loreley is based on an invented saga dating from 1800 which claims a huge rock...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2019

BENJAMIN Lessons in Love and Violence

How many composers in history could claim that their latest opera had productions booked in six countries before it had...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2019

Jeremy Denk: c1300-c2000

As ambitious recording projects go, this one must rank pretty high: so high, in fact, that it may be thought...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2019

British Light Music: The organ of Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Although the Golden Age of the Town Hall Organist is – alas – just a distant memory for most of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2019

SCRIABIN Preludes (Dmitri Alexeev; Matthieu Idmtal)

The Russian piano prelude owes almost as much to Scriabin as it does to Rachmaninov: numerically speaking, in fact, even...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2019

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 9 WEBER Piano Sonata No 2 (Paul Lewis)

This latest instalment in Paul Lewis’s Schubert pilgrimage certainly enhances his reputation. It is, as always, intelligently paced and shaped,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2019

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition RACHMANINOV Moments musicaux

Collectors familiar with Jean-Philippe Collard’s excellent EMI Rachmaninov recordings will be pleased to see the pianist return to the composer....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019

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