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HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (McDermott)

Anne-Marie McDermott’s second release for Bridge devoted to Haydn further testifies to her masterful affinity for the composer’s style, as...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018

BUCH String Quartets: From the River Flow the Stars

A cursory glance at the titles of these string quartets – all part of larger compositional series – might suggest...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018

BERLIOZ Requiem (Falletta)

The ideal way to take in the wonders of the Berlioz Requiem is to attend a performance in a concert...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2018

JL ADAMS everything that rises

Everything That Rises (2017) is John Luther Adams’s fourth string quartet, following close on the heels of untouched (2015). In...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2018

Filippo Mineccia: Siface; L’amor castrato

Filippo Mineccia’s new recital takes as its starting point the circumstances surrounding the death, on May 29, 1697, of the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018

WAGNER Das Rheingold (Elder)

The third instalment of the Hallé’s slowly assembling Ring cycle – this episode from a concert and rehearsals in November...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2018

VERDI Un giorno di regno (Bosch)

Un giorno di regno was Verdi’s only opera buffa, an early work composed in 1840 and a far cry from...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2018

SMYTH The Wreckers

This historic first recording of Ethel Smyth’s masterpiece The Wreckers derives from a meticulously prepared 1994 Henry Wood Promenade Concert,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018

ROSSINI Mosè in Egitto (Mazzola)

Much as the victim of a street mugging might ask ‘Why me?’, so one’s tempted to ask ‘Why Mosè in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018

RICORDI The Stolen Bucket (La secchia rapita)

Giulio Ricordi will always be remembered as the tenacious publisher who engineered Verdi’s collaboration with Boito and later championed Puccini,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018

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