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PAGANINI 24 Caprices (María Dueñas)

In the booklet note to this second album of hers for DG, María Dueñas notes that while Paganini wrote his...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2025

Contemporary Landscapes

Each of these works was commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic, and each showcases the excellence of the orchestra and the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2025

MOZART String Duos

This new recording from Atlantic Canada of Mozart’s magnificent duos for violin and viola delights with a sense of unleashed...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2025

LANSKY Touch and Go

During his long and fertile career, Paul Lansky (b1944) has explored a vast array of styles and techniques, from computer...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2025

HAGERTY united sounds of america

Mark Hagerty’s united sounds of america is a vivid, compelling collaboration between music and poetry that, while not intended for...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2025

DANCIGERS; WUNSCH 'Dawn'

As its name indicates, Grand Electric is the grand-piano-meets-electric-guitar duo creation of guitarist Mark Dancigers and pianist Aaron Wunsch. Dancigers...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2025

WOLF-FERRARI Il segreto di Susanna (Krieger)

Wasn’t it Oscar Wilde who said that a cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure – exquisite, and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2025

WEILL Die sieben Todsünden (Rattle)

Hard on the heels of ‘The Kurt Weill Album’, Joana Mallwitz’s confidently branded yellow label debut (DG, 9/24), LSO Live...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2025

PUCCINI Madame Butterfly (Edusei)

This is the second recording for DVD/Blu ray of the Royal Opera’s long-serving 2003 production, though much changed between the...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2025

HANDEL Lotario (Cremonesi)

Lotario (December 1729) used a libretto adapted from a recent opera by Orlandini that Handel probably heard earlier that year...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025

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