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BORG 15 Songs. Landscape

Matti Borg (b1956) has enjoyed a triple career as an operatic baritone, composer and teacher. He graduated from Ib Nørholm’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014

JS BACH St John Passion

The idea of faith merits not a single mention in almost an an hour of spoken material ancillary to this...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2014

Alison Balsom: Paris

Studying in Paris helped to define Alison Balsom’s belief of what a virtuoso trumpet soloist might achieve in the footsteps...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014

Albrecht Mayer: Lost and Found

If Mozart and Haydn have long been established as the dominant Viennese figures of the 1780s, it is always fascinating...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014

CHOPIN; TCHIAKOVSKY; PROKOFIEV; LISZT Piano Concertos

These recordings of live broadcasts dating from 1968 79 tell us in no uncertain terms of Nelson Freire’s immaculate overall...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014

ZIMMERMANN Alagoana. Photoptosis

That’s a digger on the cover of this CD, but not just any digger. Look closely and you’ll see caterpillar...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014

B TCHAIKOVSKY War Suite

Boris Tchaikovsky (no relation) is hardly top of anyone’s hit parade but that soft spot I have for his music...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6

By the time you read this, Philippe Jordan (son of the much-missed Armin) will have taken up the reins as...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014

STRAUSS Don Juan. Four Last Songs

These performances add to the impressive array of repertoire combined with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s mix of versatility and excellence...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies 6 & 14

It is 10 years since Vladimir Jurowski previously recorded Shostakovich’s Sixth with the indigenous musicians of the Russian National Orchestra...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2014

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