Replay (December 2024): Edith Peinemann, The French Piano School, Géza Anda & Kolisch String Quartet
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
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HANDEL La Resurrezione (Bicket)
Amid a string of triumphs from Handel’s glittering Roman sojourns, none rivalled the sacred oratorio La Resurrezione di Nostro Signor...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2022
Boyd Meets Girl: Songs of Love & Despair
The intimate character of Boyd Meets Girl’s new album is apparent right from the outset of the first track, their...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
TEIRSTEIN 'Restless Nation'
Andy Teirstein (b1957) composed his string quartet Restless Nation (2010, rev 2020) after a sabbatical year during which, with his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
SOPER The Understanding of All Things
When the line ‘Here is a central source of musical emotion’ sounds like poetry, you’ve fallen under the spell of...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2022
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, D850 & D960 (Anne-Marie McDermott)
In the opening measures of the D major Sonata, D850, Anne-Marie McDermott throws down the proverbial gauntlet with a power...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022
Confluence – Balkan Dances & Tango nuevo
The idea of bringing together Eastern European folk dances and tango nuevo is a sound one. Astor Piazzolla, tango nuevo’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022
La captive du sérail
The 18th century saw a fashion for operas on oriental subjects, often concerning a European woman being rescued by her...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2022
Benjamin Bernheim: Boulevard des Italiens
Paris’s beautiful Opéra-Comique is just a 10-minute stroll from the equally opulent Palais Garnier via the Boulevard des Italiens and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2022
ROUSSEL La Testament de La Tante Caroline (Corlay)
Aunt Caroline is dead, and the three nieces who shunned her during her career as a grande horizontale are suddenly...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2022
PUCCINI La bohème (Alapont)
In Irish National Opera’s short history the company has shown bags of vitality and innovation, and a little thing like...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2022
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Joan Sutherland: The Complete Decca Recordings
Tim Ashley hears the first instalment in a reissue of Joan Sutherland’s complete recordings
Review - Roberto Alagna: All’Opera
Mark Pullinger enjoys a survey of the ever-youthful tenor’s EMI recordings
Box-set Round-up: December 2024 (Poschner, Knappertsbusch, Schaller)
Rob Cowan listens to sets of Bruckner and Schubert symphonies, plus a pair of pianists
Review - Colin Davis in Amsterdam and London
David Gutman revisits the British conductor’s recordings with two major orchestras
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