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CHERUBINI Lodoïska

Lodoïska, performed in Paris in 1791, is sometimes cited as a model for Fidelio. The setting is 17th-century Poland. Count...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013

CHARPENTIER David and Jonathas

David et Jonathas seems like a full-scale Lullian opera, with a prologue and five acts, but was devised as a...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013

FRANCK Violin Sonata. Prelude, Fugue & Transcription

The spirit of Alfred Cortot and, to a lesser extent, Harold Bauer hangs over this most distinguished and enterprising recital....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013

Alexandra Silocea: Sound Waves

A distinctive 2011 CD containing Prokofiev’s first five sonatas (7/11) garnered positive attention for the Romanian pianist Alexandra Silocea, whose...

Reviewed by Distler in issue: 09/2013

TCHAIKOVSKY Rare Transcriptrions and Paraphrases Vol 2

Anthony Goldstone follows an initial volume of operatic transcriptions with arrangements of music from the ballets, again including a number...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013

SEABOURNE Steps 2 & 3

Peter Seabourne (b1960) has built a sizeable output since resuming composition in 2001 and these discs confirm no mean artistry...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 09/2013

SCHOENBERG Works for piano

If this were a Gramophone Collection survey of Schoenberg’s piano music, and I’d already discussed the relative merits, or otherwise,...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 09/2013

The Scarlatti Restored Manuscript

The 15 Scarlatti sonatas and four Soler sonatas presented on this disc stem from a manuscript collection held in the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2013

FAURÉ Piano Works

For Angela Hewitt the pieces on this album are all ‘old friends’ and music which she first learnt while in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013

JS BACH English Suites Nos 1-6, BWV806-811

Listening to these two new recordings of Bach’s wonderfully vigorous English Suites, it is hard to see why they are...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2013

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