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Handel: Heroes from the Shadows

Another Handel arias disc? Yes; although for once not just a run-down of usual arias from roles a singer happens...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2014

CAVALLI Giasone

Cavalli’s Giasone (Venice Carnival, 1649) was originally structured into a prologue and three acts, but the short prologue and numerous...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014

Vienne et après…

Two discs sharing the same title by two American pianists who investigate the evolution of Austro-German modern composition since the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014

Latin American Guitar Favourites

The Paraguayan Barrios (he added Mangoré later in life) and Brazilian Villa-Lobos were close contemporaries (born in 1885 and 1887...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014

Then English Cathedral Series: Worcester

When Christopher Robinson displayed the 1896 Hope-Jones organ of Worcester Cathedral in his 1968 recording for HMV’s ‘Great Cathedral Organ’...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2014

Lada Valešová: Dumka

A varied and sensitively planned programme, based on a genre that is in itself full of contrasts, slow against fast,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2014

CHOPIN Etudes Op 10 LISZT Ballade No 2

Liszt could hardly have received a more sumptuous or ingenious tribute than that offered by Antonio Pompa-Baldi. Opening with the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014

ULLMANN Complete Solo Piano Works

It’s ironic how a composer like Viktor Ullmann, who was persecuted and killed by the Nazis, wrote seven piano sonatas...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

SCHUMANN Novelletten. Nachstücke. Romanze

Perceiving series of pieces as inseparable, to be performed from first note to last, is a relatively recent notion, and...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 11/2014

HINDEMITH Organ Sonatas. 2 Organ Pieces

Hindemith’s organ sonatas have had surprisingly few outings on CD, so this new recording by a former pupil of Wolfgang...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2014

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