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The latest ‘Martha Argerich and Friends’ edition is culled from the Lugano Festival Progetto Martha Argerich’s final season in 2016. Whether...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
This is a delectable programme on paper but, when you come to listen, it can feel a little thin. An...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017
In these days when in the realm of Baroque repertoire you can’t move for tripping over a period instrument, the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2017
The Novus Quartet’s wiry, glistening tone – like a tightly coiled bundle of fine, luminous filaments – brings to mind the original...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017
Italian contemporary music has struggled to find renewed focus in recent years, with Orazio Sciortino (b1984) evidently among its leading...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2017
That Colin Riley (b1963) is, in his own words, ‘a composer of no fixed indoctrination’ feels less provocative a statement than...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2017
Antoine Reicha’s reputation has long been hampered by the air of academicism that clings to it. A Czech-born contemporary of Beethoven,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2017
'He had the smallest modicum possible of the phlegmatic, and the maximum of the opposite quality.’ Goethe’s characterisation of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2017
'At the beginning one does not expect much from this piece completed under the tutelage of Nikolay Myaskovsky on November 20, 1928;...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2017
For all its fearsome reputation, whether technically or conceptually, Ives’s Concord Sonata has built a sizeable discography such that any addition...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2017
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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