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RAMEAU Pièces de Clavecin

Some of the finest harpsichordists of our day have celebrated Rameau’s 250th anniversary with versions of his highly regarded if...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2014

SCHUMANN Scenes from Goethe's Faust

Since Benjamin Britten broke a lance for it in 1973, Scenes from Goethe’s Faust has not suffered from the choral-society...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2014

PUCCINI Tosca

Puccini’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2014

Romina Basso: Lamento

Romina Basso collaborates with the Greek continuo trio Latinitas Nostra in this curate’s egg of laments by Italian composers of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

Canción amorosa

What? A Spanish song disc that does not have Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas? That cycle seems all but obligatory...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2014

Stanislav Khristenko: Fantasies

Stanislav Khristenko’s first-place victory in the 2013 Cleveland International Piano Competition generated well-deserved online chatter, much of it directed to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014

CHOPIN Piano Works

Entitled ‘Dedication’, Roger Peltzman’s Chopin recital is made in memory of his uncle, the pianist and teacher Norbert Stern who,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2014

Lisa Schatzman: Reminiscences

The composer’s names are familiar but the titles – and the medium in which they’re written – are mostly unknown....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2014

PONCE Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Having a sweet tooth and a fondness for heady bravura concertos, I’ve had a soft spot for Manuel Ponce’s Piano...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014

HANDEL Terpsichore. Ariodante - Ballet Music

Handel’s only ballet prologue Terpsicore was added to a revival of Il pastor fido in November 1734. It presents Apollo...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

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