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MESSIAEN Turangalîla Symphony

Juanjo Mena’s 2012 Turangalîla-Symphonie for Hyperion felt like the dawning of a new Messiaenic age. As I said in my...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014

VERDI Giovanna d'Arco

As Anna Netrebko cycles out of bel canto and into more lirico-spinto Verdi roles, Giovanna d’Arco stands at the halfway...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY; CHOPIN Piano Concertos No 1

Ingolf Wunder first came to public attention in 2010 when he was awarded joint second prize in the International Chopin...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014

James Rhodes: 5; Piano Man

Behind pianist James Rhodes’s punk-rock persona and harrowing back story lies a sincere, communicative and mindful musician. He always holds...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014

STRAVINSKY Chant du Rossignol PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 8

Stravinsky and Prokofiev had a long friendship, if that is the right word for a relationship that was mutually influential...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 09/2014

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier

Samuil Feinberg’s magnificent Russian recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (taped 1958-61) commands a range of keyboard colour that at times...

Reviewed in issue AW2014

In Praise of St Columba

I suspect that at least two of the previous directors of music at Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge, Patrick...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW2014

VIVALDI Solo Concertos

In the course of a long and extraordinarily prolific career, Antonio Vivaldi wrote a considerable number of virtuoso concertos. Many...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: AW2014

The Rascal and the Sparrow: Poulenc meets Piaf

Entitled ‘The Rascal and the Sparrow: Poulenc meets Piaf’, Antonio Pompa-Baldi presents an irresistible ‘conversation between two icons’. Cabaret and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014

Rarities of Piano Music 2013

What would we do without the annual Schloss vor Husum Festival? Here, pianists, known and unknown, gratefully gather to respond...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW14

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