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MOZART Mitridate, re di Ponto

Defeated by Pompey and sending a report of his own death, Mitridate returns to his kingdom to find that his...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2017

MAYR Telemaco

Premiered at La Fenice in 1797, when Venice was occupied by Napoleon’s troops, Simon Mayr’s take on the Telemachus-Calypso legend...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2017

GRAUN Opera Arias

The name Carl Heinrich Graun won’t be familiar to many opera-goers – or indeed many singers. He was Kapellmeister to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2017

BENJAMIN Into the Little Hill

Nimbus’s latest George Benjamin disc has no unrecorded works but does make a rounded and absorbing programme. Good to have...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017

Dance Fantasies

Pianist Catherine Gordeladze begins her recital promisingly with hard-hitting yet virile readings of two Rameau-Godowsky transcriptions plus two pure, unadulterated...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2017

L’arpa notturna

A debut recording is a statement of intent, and when the artist in question comes trailing as many accolades as...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

À la russe

There are half a dozen encores, or quasi-encores, here that proclaim an outstanding young artist at work – least predictably...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2017

Alberto Reyes Plays Bach, Chopin, Franck

I first encountered the cultivated and masterful pianism of Alberto Reyes on a hard-to-find 1995 Connoisseur Society release devoted to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2017

Sergey Rachmaninov: Solo Piano Recordings, Vol 4

The 14 tracks here are of six titles Rachmaninov recorded for Edison in New York over four days in April...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2017

TOCH Solo Piano Pieces

‘Canada, Malaga, Rimini, Brindisi…’ No need to be embarrassed if that entertainingly tongue-twisting Geographical Fugue has, until now, been your...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

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