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BELLINI Norma (Pappano)
This was the production that should have marked Anna Netrebko’s role debut as Bellini’s turbulent priestess. Instead the Bulgarian soprano...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2018
DEBUSSY Piano Music (Hough; Cho)
Hyperion has been keeping Roger Nichols particularly busy of late, writing the notes for Steven Osborne’s Debussy recital (enthusiastically reviewed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2018
A Lute by Sixtus Rauwolf
After delighting us with the music of Jacobean and Italian Renaissance masters of the lute in his previous two recordings,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2018
Sofya Gulyak: Chaconne
Sofya Gulyak builds her new Champs Hill release around a series of chaconnes, dating from the early 18th century through...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018
SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas (van den Bercken)
There’s a sense of care about the whole production here, from the specially created cover art to the choice of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2018
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No 2 SCARLATTI; PROKOFIEV Piano sonatas
Winner of the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, Dmitry Masleev delivers his six chosen Scarlatti sonatas, all in the minor mode, with...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2018
PAGANINI 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (Sueye Park)
The first point worth making is that BIS’s recording of the featured Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin (Cremona, 1739) is extremely...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2018
KOMITAS Seven Songs
The eventful and ultimately tragic life of Komitas (aka Soghomon Soghominian, 1869-1935) might well overshadow his legacy as collector of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018
BRAHMS Handel Variations. Ballades Op 10
What constitutes interpretation? Surely every artist worthy of the name seeks to internalise the message of the music she or...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018
JS BACH; YSAŸE Solo Violin Sonatas
It does seem extraordinary that no violinist before Antje Weithaas has recorded a full double cycle of the solo violin...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2018
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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