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TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta

Maybe, just maybe, Anna Netrebko’s advocacy of Tchaikovsky’s last opera – namely this recording (made live in Essen) and the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2015

CORELLI La Follia

It’s rare to experience the level of artistic rapport heard on this recording from the Danish recorder player Michala Petri...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 01/2015

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto

Two discs here, the first a Blu ray with visuals, the second a hybrid SACD. In terms of sound, the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015

BERIO Sinfonia. Calmo

From the last hurrah of Boccherini’s four simultaneous nocturnal parties disappearing round the street corner yet hanging in the night...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015

MONTEVERDI Madrigals Vol 2

Monteverdi’s madrigals have been served so well and so richly that ensembles must be pretty sure of their ground before...

Reviewed in issue 01/2015

MONTEVERDI Vespers of 1610

Having released on three separate discs Monteverdi’s late (1641) published collection of sacred music, Selva morale e spirituale (12/10, 8/12,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2014

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade BORTKIEWICZ 5 Melodies from a Thousand Nights

Sheherazade as chamber music? Reduced to four members? Somewhere up there, Leopold Stokowski, the man who made this music a...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015

Duo Gemini: Road Movies

Plangent sounds and punchy rhythms permeate the five compositions for violin and piano played very impressively on this recording by...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2015

VIVALDI Sonatas for Violin and Continuo

Vivaldi’s Op 5 consists of six sonatas: four for solo violin, followed by two trio sonatas, the latter a well-established...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 01/2015

STILL String Quartets Nos 1 - 4

The four string quartets by Robert Still (1910 71) chart a fascinating stylistic journey. Premiered in 1948 (and not heard...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015

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