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Sirius Quartet: Playing on the Edge Vol 2

I warmly commended the Sirius Quartet’s previous album, ‘Playing on the Edge’ (11/19US), for their fine ensemble and innovative programming,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

KARCHIN Five Compositions (2009-2019)

While all of Louis Karchin’s music here is highly enjoyable and rewarding for both participants and listeners, the most memorable...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2021

DEHLINGER 'At That Hour' - Art Songs

Henry Dehlinger is a gifted and versatile musician. As a pianist of exceptional fluency, he has teamed with soprano Danielle...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2021

CUNNINGHAM Proscenium Moments

I welcomed Navona Records’ ninth disc devoted to the music of Michael G Cunningham (b1937) last May, archival recordings of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

BRAHMS Last Piano Pieces (Victor Rosenbaum)

Victor Rosenbaum begins the first of Brahms’s Op 117 Intermezzos at a brisk pace, bringing cross-rhythmic lines to the fore....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

Linda Richardson: Italian Opera Arias

Between 1998 and 2010 Chandos issued, under its ‘Opera in English’ banner, a series of operatic recital discs featuring a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2021

WUORINEN Haroun and the Sea of Stories

A 12-note opera – for children? Well, yes, and rather good it is, too! Charles Wuorinen, who died in March...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

VIVALDI Argippo (Biondi)

In 2008 the harpsichordist Ondřej Macek made a valiant attempt to reconstruct Vivaldi’s lost Argippo (Prague, 1730), itself a revision...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2021

ROSSINI Matilde di Shabran (Pérez-Sierra)

‘It was really enough, more than enough. The entire performance was like an idolatrous orgy; everyone acted there as if...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2021

KAYSER Scherz, List und Rache

In 18th-century Venice, two sweethearts plot their revenge on the miserly Doctor who has swindled them – first by pretending...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021

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