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GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2

If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And Denis Matsuev has certainly got ‘it’ – whatever that magic, unteachable ingredient is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW13

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Few conductors record Brahms’s symphonies so early in their discographic careers. But with a conceptual title such as ‘Beloved Brahms’,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW13

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos, BWV1046-51

Expertly stylish recordings of the six concertos Bach presented in neat copy to the Margrave of Brandenburg in March 1721...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW13

BERKELEY Music for Violin and Piano, and solo Violin

Here are two largely forgotten British violin-and-piano sonatas on one CD. It is an amazing rescue operation, since Berkeley regularly...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: AW13

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas, Vol 1

I first came across the Bach of Chris Thile – mandolin virtuoso and founding member of progressive bluegrass outfit Punch...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW13

SCHIERBECK Fête galante

Poul Schierbeck was one of Carl Nielsen’s most gifted students and in turn lived to teach several well-known representatives of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2013

ROSSINI La Cenerentola WAGNER Tristan und Isolde

Glyndebourne has been mean to absent with its releases of genuine historical material – the Fritz Busch live Figaro and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2013

MERCADANTE I due Figaro

Operas that have been lost, suppressed or forgotten before their fair hearing have a special mystique, and Mercadante’s I due...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013

MASSENET Le Mage. Thérèse

The magus of the title is Zarâstra, aka Zoroaster; but there’s little resemblance to the character portrayed by Handel and...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2013

ALAGNA Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne

How many Alagnas does it take to make the Victor Hugo-inspired opera Le dernier jour d’un condamné? Three: Roberto to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013

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