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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 10

It’s not certain if Paavali Jumppanen’s second double-CD release devoted to Beethoven sonatas signifies a cycle in the works, yet...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH Six French Suites

Writing in his accompanying essay, Russian-American pianist Sergey Schepkin leaves you in no doubt why Bach is at the heart...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH Cello Suites (Complete)

As with so much mainstream repertoire, the catalogue is so full of recordings – good and bad – that there...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH Six Sonatas and Partias for Solo Violin

There is delicate ornamentation present here (and not Baroque-specific ornamentation) that is so sparingly used that one would be forgiven...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015

CPE BACH Solo Keyboard Music

Miklós Spányi has probably done more than anyone alive to promote CPE Bach’s waywardly inspired keyboard music, sometimes bizarre, even...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015

VERDI Sicillian Vespers

Setting a grand opera on a grand opera-house stage costumed at the time of its premiere has been done before...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2015

SHCHEDRIN The Left-Hander

Nikolay Leskov is probably best known to English readers, certainly to English music lovers, as the author of The Lady...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2015

ROSSINI William Tell

This 2013 ‘Rossini in Wildbad’ production of Guillaume Tell is probably as fine an achievement as any in the festival’s...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2015

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas

Dido and Aeneas strikes me as a piece that struggles to gain a great deal from modern-day opera-house stagings. The...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2015

MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

There is a thorny issue about how much (or little) of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Venice, 1640) is actually...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

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