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HANDEL Theodora

It must be a world record for William Christie to have conducted four different commercial releases of Handel’s late masterpiece...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017

CACCINI La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola di Alcina

Written to celebrate the visit of Archduke Karl of Styria to Florence during the carnival season of 1625, La liberazione...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 04/2017

BRAUNFELS Ulenspiegel

First performed in Stuttgart in 1913, Braunfels’s second opera centres on Till Ulenspiegel (or Eulenspiegel), the rebellious prankster of north...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017

BIZET Les Pêcheurs de Perles

In this performance from the New York Met, a co-production with English National Opera, the setting is not Ceylon in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2017

Great American Sonatas

Aaron Copland’s Piano Sonata doesn’t exactly lack in first-rate recordings, yet there’s certainly room for Nathan Williamson’s commanding interpretation. The...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2017

SEABOURNE Steps: An Anthology for Piano. 16 Scenes Before a Crcufixion

The five volumes that comprise Steps marked an unequivocal return to composition for Peter Seabourne (b1960). The first and last...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2017

SCHUMANN The Complete Works for Piano Vol. 6

In 2006 the Swiss company Claves embarked on a collaboration with the Clara Haskil Competition to record all the piano...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2017

SCHUBERT Complete Busoni Transcriptions

While Mahler was acknowledged as the conductor of his generation (Richard Strauss his closest rival), Busoni was the supreme pianist....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

RUST Der Clavierpoet

For Vincent d’Indy, the near-forgotten Dessau court composer Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739 96) was ‘the connecting link between Haydn and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

REGER Fantasias and Fugues

Reger wrote four large-scale organ Fantasias and Fugues which were not based on chorale melodies. Ranging in playing length from...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2017

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