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BERLIOZ Romeo & Juliette. La Mort de Cleopatre (Nelson)

The descriptor symphonie dramatique for Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette is a bit of a misnomer; it’s neither a symphony nor...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2023

Barnaby Smith: Bach

No falsettist worth his salt can resist these two sublime cantatas, saturated with echt-Lutheran life-weariness and death-longing. Barnaby Smith, best...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2023

JS BACH Trinitatis: Cantatas

These three cantatas have long been in the canon as celebrated examples of Bach in the first flush of Leipzig...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2023

Sarah Beth Briggs: Variations

Richard Goode once witnessed a pianist auditioning for Rudolf Serkin with Mozart’s Duport Variations. After it was over, Serkin said:...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023

Jean Rondeau: Gradus ad Parnassum

Debussy, one suspects, would not have touched a harpsichord with a bargepole. Yet here is ‘Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum’, his...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2023

Matthew Barley: Electric

Profiling cellist Matthew Barley a few years ago (6/19), Charlotte Gardner aptly called his multi-genre output a ‘fizzing cornucopia’. His...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2023

Avec Esprit: Gouvy, Mélan-Guéroult, Saint-Saens, Ysaye

Before I begin, I must declare an interest: I am a fully paid-up member of the Tal & Groethuysen fan...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023

RUBINSTEIN Preludes and Études (Martin Cousin)

‘Like many fecund composers,’ wrote Albert Lockwood in 1940, ‘[Anton Rubinstein] offers two kinds of failures. First, the pieces which...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023

MOZART; BIZET Don Giovanni (Cyprien Katsaris)

Hands up! Who knew that Georges Bizet had made a piano solo arrangement of Mozart’s Don Giovanni? Thought so. My...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023

MENDELSSOHN Songs without Words, Vol 2 (Jacopo Salvatori)

Pianists who record Mendelssohn’s complete Songs without Words usually present them in order by opus number. For his second and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023

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