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Review of LISZT Opera Transcriptions

LISZT Opera Transcriptions

It is nearly 20 years since Arnaldo Cohen inaugurated Naxos’s series of all Liszt’s solo piano music (6/97). Leslie Howard,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016

Review of GALILEI The Well-Tempered Lute

GALILEI The Well-Tempered Lute

This latest release from ak Ozmo again demonstrates the London-based lutenist and conductor’s searching intellect and wry imagination. But it...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2016

Review of BORTKIEWICZ Piano Sonata No 2. Fantasiestücke

BORTKIEWICZ Piano Sonata No 2. Fantasiestücke

Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) was a man born out of his time, musically and physically. He had no time for atonal...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016

Review of Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert & Beethoven

Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert & Beethoven

To call Sokolov’s Schubert heavy-laden would certainly be no exaggeration. However, to say, as the gushy booklet essay does of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2016

Review of The Deer's Cry

The Deer's Cry

Just over a year ago, Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent released an album of music by William Byrd (‘Infelix...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016

Review of Christine de Pizan, Chansons et Ballades

Christine de Pizan, Chansons et Ballades

What at first glance might seem a little contrived about this programme quickly reveals itself to be a rather brilliant...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2016

Review of Birds in Baroque Music

Birds in Baroque Music

Recorders and sopranos – it might not be Cav/Pag or Gheorghiu and Alagna, but it’s still one of music’s great...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016

Review of Birds of Paradise

Birds of Paradise

If Humperdinck and Hindemith seem like odd bedfellows, try adding Finzi, Berg and Ravel to the mix and you’ll find...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016

Review of TCHAIKOVSKY The Snow Maiden

TCHAIKOVSKY The Snow Maiden

It must be difficult being a young Järvi. Whenever conducting brothers Paavo and Kristjan record a new disc, there’s every...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016

Review of SCHUMANN Manfred

SCHUMANN Manfred

‘Terrible night with dreams of death,’ noted the young Schumann in 1829 after reading Manfred. Nineteen years later, in a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2016

 

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