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MONTEVERDI Orfeo

Opus Arte’s DVD of Gilbert Deflo’s staged production of Orfeo at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu was given a thorough...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015

ALBINONI Opera Arias and Instrumental Music

Posterity has been kind to the various concertos of the Venetian dilettante Albinoni (1671 1750/51) published in his lifetime, but...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015

The Boston Scene

Here’s an area of the piano’s repertoire that is not often visited. Nor is it at all common to hear...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015

Benno Moiseiwitsch

After Naxos’s lucky 13 discs of Moiseiwitsch comes a Testament three-CD album of previously unpublished recordings. Here, once more, you...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2015

JC SMITH Six Suites of Lessons HANDEL Riccardo Primo Overture

John Christopher Smith (1712 95) was the son of Handel’s long-serving assistant Johann Christoph Schmidt. By 1725 he was studying...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015

SCHUMANN Album for the Young

Schumann’s Album for the Young was composed for his young daughters, and, scaling down his volatile, complex and Romantic nature,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2015

SCELSI Suites Nos 8 & 9

Composers are often painfully aware of how much longer it can take to write down musical thoughts than it does...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2015

SCARLATTI Piano Sonatas

Pianist Claire Huangci has devised an ingenious programme concept for her second solo CD release, a two-disc Scarlatti collection. She...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2015

RAVEL Gaspard de la Nuit. Miroirs. Pavane

Carlo Grante, the Italian pianist who has recorded the Chopin-Godowsky Etudes and, remarkably, the complete Scarlatti sonatas, enters a crowded...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2015

LISZT Transcendental Etudes

Liszt’s 12 Etudes d’exécution transcendante in their final 1852 form place huge technical and musical demands on the player. Few...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015

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