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Sibelius Symphony No 5 (original 1915 version); En Saga, Op 9

  Every so often a CD appears which, by means of some interpretative insight, changes our view of a piece of...

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JS BACH; BARTÓK; YSAŸE Solo Violin Sonatas

Swiss violinist Georges-Emmanuel Schneider has the technique to give a good account of this demanding programme and his performances have...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2011

CURRAN Solo Works: The 70s

“Solo Works: The ’70s” is not, I admit, a very promising title, evoking as it inevitably does the anaemic vamps...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2011

SCHUMANN Kinderszenen. Kreisleriana

Piano aficionados may previously have encountered the artistry of Uruguayan pianist Alberto Reyes in a splendid and hard-to-find 1995 Connoisseur...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2011

Carleton Etherington

Tewkesbury Abbey’s two organs are unusual in that they are both large, romantically inclined four-manual instruments not originally intended for...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2011

Miloš Karadaglić

I’m sure I said in my last classical guitar review that if I heard another recording of Domeniconi’s Koyunbaba, I’d...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2011

Liuto con forza

The title of this disc may appear oxymoronic but, here, “strength” is of purpose as much as anything else. The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2011

JL BACH Trauermusik

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was acutely aware of the extremes of fame and obscurity that lay between him (and his...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2011

BERLIOZ La damnation de Faust

Back in 1999 the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam invited Bernard Haitink to give a carte blanche series of concerts involving five...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2011

HANDEL Oreste

All credit to the festival in Besigheim in Germany for unearthing in 2009 a totally unknown opera by Handel and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2011

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