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DEBUSSY; RAVEL; TAILLEFERRE String Quartets (Stenhammar Quartet)

Like Debussy and Ravel, Germaine Tailleferre wrote only one string quartet. It began life in 1917 as a Sonatine for...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019

BOND Instruments of Revelation

Victoria Bond (b1945) is a multifaceted composer and conductor (the first woman to hold a Doctorate in Conducting from the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Trio Zimmermann)

If you play the first variation of the Goldbergs on strings it resembles the opening of the Third Brandenburg. Or...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019

SUK Asrael Symphony. Fairy Tale (Bělohlávek)

How gratifying that Jiří Bělohlávek was able to re record Suk’s Asrael in his second tenure at the helm of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 21 (Bavouzet)

These miraculous works from the Lenten season of 1785 may be the two Mozart concertos most commonly paired on disc....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2019

CHARPENTIER Histoires sacrées

This is superb. Here is a generous selection of sacred pieces by Charpentier, impeccably performed by Ensemble Correspondances under Sébastien...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2019

Johan Botha: Italian Opera Arias

This double album serves as a natural follow-up to a selection of scenes by Beethoven, Strauss and Wagner, recorded live...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2019

WAGNER Siegfried (Elder)

This new Siegfried completes Mark Elder and the Hallé’s Ring, nine years in the making from concerts in Manchester and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2019

VACCAJ Giulietta e Romeo

The ordering of the names might give a clue: like Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Nicola Vaccaj’s Giulietta e...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2019

SPONTINI Olimpie

Spontini, the favourite of Napoleon and Josephine, had his greatest successes with La vestale and Fernand Cortez, staged at the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2019

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