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Wagner and Me

This absorbing documentary ends as Stephen Fry enters the Bayreuth Festival Theatre for a 2009 performance. His last words to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2011

One Day Fine

Composed in 1933, Moeran’s Songs of Springtime is a superb example of the kind of unaccompanied secular choral writing at...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2011

Chansons

I know that musicians must do everything they can to glorify their careers, but there is something refreshing about the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2011

Après un rêve

Sandrine Piau brings her familiar limpid tone, refined phrasing and easy, silvery top notes to this eclectic programme, built around...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2011

MAHLER Symphony No 4 BERLIOZ Les nuits d'été

Les nuits d’été (the definite article is missing throughout Somm’s eccentric presentation) may be the only work by Berlioz that...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2011

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op 45

If you notice something, it’s already too much, Claudio Abbado once remarked to Rob Cowan, and there’s a lot to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2011

POULENC Concerto pour deux pianos et orchestre. Concert Champêtre. Suite Française

Something mildly fruity and soft-edged about the piano timbre in Jos van Immerseel’s and Claire Chevallier’s performance of Poulenc’s Two-Piano...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2011

DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Poème

The experience of listening to Julia Fischer’s latest CD was tinged with sadness, cast as it was in the shadow...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2011

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 53 & 54

Adjacent numerically, these two symphonies were composed some years apart (No 54, 1774; No 53, c1777‑79). And, while L’impériale has...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2011

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio Op 50. Kissine Zerkalo (The Mirror)

Gidon Kremer has recorded the Tchaikovsky Trio before – a patched live affair with Argerich and Maisky, where he had...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2011

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