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Review of Sonatas and Nocturnes: 19th Century Gems for Bassoon and Piano

Sonatas and Nocturnes: 19th Century Gems for Bassoon and Piano

Michel Bettez has been principal bassoon for more than 30 years of Montreal’s beloved Orchestre Métropolitain, currently under the artistic direction...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2017

Review of VINES Loose, Wet, Perforated

VINES Loose, Wet, Perforated

Commissioned by the Boston-based experimental opera company Guerilla Opera and premiered in 2011, Nicholas Vines’s highly resourceful pocket opera (four...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2017

Review of TROTTA For a Breath of Ecstasy

TROTTA For a Breath of Ecstasy

The American composer Michael John Trotta has concentrated on choral music for most of his career. The newest disc devoted...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2017

Review of MAKAN Letting Time Circle Through Us

MAKAN Letting Time Circle Through Us

Keeril Makan’s Letting Time Circle Through Us (2013) is a sextet in one large, euphonious, unbroken span. Written for the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017

Review of DVOŘÁK String Quartet No 12 MARSALIS String Quartet No 1

DVOŘÁK String Quartet No 12 MARSALIS String Quartet No 1

What an interesting pairing of works the Euclid Quartet have come up with for their new disc. ‘American Quartets’ teams Dvořák’s String Quartet...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2017

Review of CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3. Mazurkas Op 59

CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3. Mazurkas Op 59

Craig Sheppard, the Philadelphia-born pianist who turns 70 this year, has built a remarkable career by almost any standard. He studied with...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2017

Review of CHOPIN Complete Nocturnes (Rodrigues)

CHOPIN Complete Nocturnes (Rodrigues)

On the plus side, pianist Eliane Rodrigues possesses a colourful and focused sonority, abetted by the superb acoustic ambience of the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

Review of CHIHARA Take the A Train

CHIHARA Take the A Train

Paul Chihara (b1938) is well known as a film composer – starting with Death Race 2000 for Roger Corman in 1975 –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017

Review of SIBELIUS Tapiola. En Saga, Eight Songs

SIBELIUS Tapiola. En Saga, Eight Songs

‘I haven’t seen the ancient forests of Northern Finland but I still think I do a pretty convincing Tapiola’, Hannu Lintu told me for a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017

Review of PADEREWSKI Piano Concerto STOJOWSKI Symphonic Rhapsody

PADEREWSKI Piano Concerto STOJOWSKI Symphonic Rhapsody

Any new Jonathan Plowright recording is a cause for celebration, even more so when he brings to the catalogue a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2017

 

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Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...

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