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Review of G LEWIS Assemblage

G LEWIS Assemblage

George E Lewis (b1952) is nothing if not a musical polymath: composer, improviser, installation artist, activist, trombonist, teacher (from San Diego...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017

Review of LERDAHL Episodes and Refrains. Quiet Music

LERDAHL Episodes and Refrains. Quiet Music

The music of Fred Lerdahl (b1943) may just be one of America’s great secret treasures. Here is a composer, now in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017

Review of CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3 LISZT Piano Sonata S178

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3 LISZT Piano Sonata S178

The Baltimore-based pianist Chad R Bowles is co-director of the Peabody Piano Academy and the chair of the piano department in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017

Review of JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-1011

JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-1011

The recording catalogue is filled with performances of Bach’s Cello Suites in all sorts of interpretative guises. Many tend towards Romantic...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2017

Review of ALDRIDGE Sister Carrie

ALDRIDGE Sister Carrie

Robert Livingston Aldridge and Herschel Garfein had a major success with Elmer Gantry, their opera based on the 1926 novel by...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2017

Review of Regula Mühlemann : Cleopatra - Baroque Arias

Regula Mühlemann : Cleopatra - Baroque Arias

The theme of Baroque arias for Cleopatra has been tried and tested before, notably by Isabel Bayrakdarian and Tafelmusik (CBC,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2017

Review of SUPPÉ Il Ritorno del Marinaio

SUPPÉ Il Ritorno del Marinaio

Who knew that Franz von Suppé, composer of operettas (Die schöne Galathee, Boccaccio) and overtures (Poet and Peasant, Light Cavalry),...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2017

Review of ROSSINI Bianca a Falliero

ROSSINI Bianca a Falliero

Bianca e Falliero is a magnificent opera. Written for La Scala, Milan, in the autumn of 1819 at the high noon...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2017

Review of ROREM Our Town

ROREM Our Town

By all rights, Ned Rorem’s musical setting of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town should make for a perfect opera. Rorem is...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2017

Review of MOZART Arias (Juan Diego Flórez)

MOZART Arias (Juan Diego Flórez)

Juan Diego Flórez’s last operatic album, ‘L’Amour’ (Decca, 6/14), took him forwards in time from his bel canto basecamp into...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2017

 

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