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OFFENBACH Colorature: Jodie Devos

There’s no getting away from the fact that an entire album of wall-to-wall Offenbachian coloratura, a festival of the chanteuse...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019

LISZT Études d’exécution transcendante (Gugnin; Giltburg)

Today, when Liszt’s 12 Études d’exécution transcendante seem almost a part of the landscape, with a couple of new recordings...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2019

HAYDN Piano Sonatas (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

There’s a strange feeling of something like alienation or distance at the outset of Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Haydn recital. Perhaps it’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019

Tasmin Little plays C Schumann, Beach and Smyth

For a neglected Romantic violin sonata, being recorded by Tasmin Little and John Lenehan must feel like going to heaven....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2019

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos (Mitsuko Uchida)

Mitsuko Uchida’s previous recording of the Beethoven piano concertos, with Kurt Sanderling and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Philips, 5/96,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2019

JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Giuliano Carmignola)

Were I to append a subtitle to this memorable album it would be ‘the art of the bow’, the reason...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH; KABALEVSKY; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonatas (Isserlis)

‘Olli and I find it quite masterly – and addictive’, Steven Isserlis writes in a booklet note on Kabalevsky’s Cello...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2019

LUTOSŁAWSKI; DUTILLEUX Cello Concertos (Moser)

Few of the concertante works premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich enjoy repertoire status. Among them, the concertos by Lutosławski and Dutilleux...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2019

SCHUMANN Frage (Gerhaher & Huber)

Any fan of Lieder will have rubbed their hands with anticipation when it was revealed a couple of years ago...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2019

Anne Sofie von Otter: A Simple Song

The heart might justifiably sink at the prospect of a classical star releasing an album that concludes with ‘Climb ev’ry...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2019

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