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BURRY Baby Kintyre

Babies suffer a dire fate in opera – tossed into the fire (Il trovatore) or thrown under the ice (Jenůfa)...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015

BIZET The Pearl Fishers

From Naples comes a less than sharp revival of Bizet’s best nearly-nearly opera. The Pearl Fishers is always worth hearing...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015

Les Vents Français: Winds and Piano

Two favourites (of mine, at any rate) frame this three-CD set of wind-ensemble pieces from Les Vents Français. The fact...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015

La Vida Breve

What initially looks like a marginally relevant disc turns out to be a deceptively smart, feel-good collection that also solves...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015

Tabea Zimmermann: Romance oubliée

This collection of Romantic pieces is remarkable for the outstanding quality of the playing. Tabea Zimmermann and Thomas Hoppe give...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015

The English Phantasy

Given the richness and uniqueness of much of the chamber music motivated by the Cobbett Competition (instigated in 1905), it...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 03/2015

NONO Seguente

There was a period in my life when I would regularly overdose on late-period Luigi Nono. The all-encompassing scope of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2015

KREČIČ Architexture’ : Music for strings

When new music can’t be understood without the album notes, either the idiom is extremely foreign or the composer’s intentions...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015

MOZART; IVES; VERDI String Quartets

The Schumann Quartet – not named after Robert but after the three brothers who are its violinists and cellist –...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015

HINDEMITH Sonatas for Horn, Cello, Trombone, Violin and Trumoet

If there is a Cinderella among Hindemith’s three dozen(ish) sonatas, it’s not that for double bass, tuba, or even the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015

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