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BOTTESINI Reverie

Knut Erik Sundquist’s recital replicates the contents of a recording by the Viennese virtuoso Ludwig Streicher (Teldec – nla) made...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 08/2012

BORODIN; GLAZUNOV; ARENSKY Chamber Music

Borodin got in ahead of his critics by admitting candidly that his String Sextet was ‘very Mendelssohnian’, excusing himself on...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 08/2012

SMETANA The Bartered Bride

There’s a twofold irony about The Bartered Bride. With its jolly picture of village life, its choruses and its dances,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2012

BIZET Carmen

Among the operas I’d most love to hear Simon Rattle conduct, Carmen isn’t even on the list, much less at...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2012

MAHLER Symphony No 1

In describing Iván Fischer’s account of Mahler’s Symphony No 1 with the Budapest Festival Orchestra at last year’s Proms, the...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 09/2012

LUTOSŁAWSKI Funeral Music BARTÓK Divertimento. Romanian Folk Dances

Juxtaposing Lutosławski’s Funeral Music in memory of Béla Bartók (1956-58) with the Hungarian’s Divertimento (1939) is apt beyond the textural...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2012

DIEM (Dutch Institute of Electronic Music): 25 Years

Whether by accident or intentioned design, this anthology of electronic composition created at the Danish Institute of Electronic Music between...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2012

ZELENKA Trio Sonatas

These six exuberantly virtuoso sonatas for two oboes, bassoon and continuo are the works that brought Zelenka into our modern-day...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW/2012

WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 6

Since forming in 1991, the Quatuor Danel has made a particular study of Weinberg and this disc is the final...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW/2012

SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 10 & 15

It might have been a terrifying set of hurdles in its time; but if today’s quartets are not awed by...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2012

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