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Aquarelle Guitar Quartet: Aspects

As the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet point out in their booklet-note: ‘As four individuals with differing musical tastes, we have sought,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2017

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 54, 82 & 170

The question is not if but when a distinguished countertenor decides to record the Bach solo alto cantatas. The catalogue...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2017

TCHAIKOVSKY; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos

There is no violinist currently playing the high end of the international circuit that I would sooner go out of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2017

HANDEL Alcina. Tamerlano

These productions began life a few years apart in Drottningholm before double-bill revivals at the Dutch National Opera and La...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017

HÉROLD Le Pré Aux Clercs

Operaphiles are indebted to the likes of Opera Rara and Palazzetto Bru Zane for dredging up long-lost works and reviving...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2017

SCARLATTI Missa defunctorum

Alessandro Scarlatti’s Missa defunctorum (1717) has never been recorded before, although it was performed at Stravinsky’s funeral in 1971. A...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017

Charles Richard-Hamelin: Chopin

Charles Richard-Hamelin is the 27-year-old Quebec-born pianist who won second prize at the Chopin Competition last year. Many apparently felt...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2017

Rostropovich Encores

Having released a hugely enjoyable Casals encores recording (Hyperion, 9/11), Alban Gerhardt is now back with Rostropovich encores. The first...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017

SCHUBERT Death and the Maiden SIBELIUS Intimate Voices

If there was one thing we learnt about the Ehnes Quartet from their debut recording in 2014 – Shostakovich’s Seventh...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017

Music For My Love

In October 2014 Yodit Tekle – the partner of Toccata Classics’ founder Martin Anderson – was diagnosed with cancer. Anderson...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2017

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