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CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Settings of Whitman and Shakespeare

These two works were composed either side of Castelnouvo-Tedesco’s emigration to the United States in 1939 following Mussolini’s introduction of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016

CAMPRA Requiem. De Profundis

The manuscript of André Campra’s Messe des morts in the Bibliothèque Nationale does not reveal when or why it was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2016

BRAUNFELS Orchestral Songs

Hansjörg Albrecht’s survey of Braunfels’s orchestral Lieder gets off to a strange start, since just over half of its first...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016

BANTOCK Omar Khayyám

Composed between 1906 and 1909, cast in three parts and lasting some three hours and 20 minutes, Granville Bantock’s thrillingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2016

The Soldier's Return: Guitar music inspired by Scotland

What happens when the expansive romantic visions of an ‘exotic’ Scotland such as one finds in Beethoven, Rossini, Mendelssohn or...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2016

SCRIABIN Preludes STOCKHAUSEN Klavierstuck XII

In the booklet interview accompanying her latest CD, Vanessa Benelli Mosell asserts that ‘Scriabin and Stockhausen shared the ambition to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2016

Noriko Ogawa plays Satie; Olga Scheps: Satie

John Cage’s mantra that Erik Satie’s structures were based around ‘lengths of time rather than harmonic relations’ (as quoted in...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 6. 7 & 8

Soon after his shared second-prize success in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition, Peter Donohoe recorded a splendid Prokofiev Sixth Sonata for...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2016

POULENC Improvisations. Novelettes. Sonata for 4 hands

Lucille Chung’s new Poulenc disc is doubly welcome. To begin with, Chung is a startlingly original pianist whose solo work,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016

MASSENET Complete Piano Works

Think of Massenet and you think of Werther, Manon and the ‘Méditation’ from Thaïs – and not necessarily of piano...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

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