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MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios

Another month, another Mendelssohn trios disc. This new one from the Hamlet Trio, a group just four years old, boasts...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2015

KOECHLIN Chamber Music for Oboe

Only a fraction of Koechlin’s immense output is available on disc, so Stefan Schilli’s survey of his chamber works for...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2015

GRANADOS; TURINA Piano Quintets

Javier Perianes here champions two chamber works by composers who hailed from Andalusia, as indeed does he. Perianes has shown...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2015

BRUCKNER String Quintet. String Quartet

This first ‘period’ recording of Bruckner’s String Quintet may overturn some preconceptions. When writing it in 1879, the composer was...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2015

Baroque Divas

Decca needs to sell copies, of course. Just don’t be deceived by the disc’s title and the coyly titillating cover....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015

WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

As this performance has been available unofficially for some time, collectors may already know that ‘Kna’, the legendary dinosaur of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2015

WAGNER Opera Arias

Evgeny Nikitin is an estimable Wagnerian but is perhaps best known for a performance that never happened. He was cast...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015

VERDI Aida

Opera houses are on a hiding to nothing when staging Verdi’s Aida. Audiences crave the sort of spectacle usually reserved...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015

STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten

The Strauss anniversary year might have offered a fair number of performances to keep FroSch-fanciers happy, but not much of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015

STRAUSS Elektra

This new issue enters a crowded field but on paper has some unusual characteristics to distinguish it. First is the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015

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