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Vittorio Grigòlo: The Romantic Hero

Much has been made of Vittorio Grigòlo’s background, including early years in in the choir of the Sistine Chapel and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2014

Daniel Behle: Gluck Opera Arias

The inexorable rise of Handelian opera seria has exploded the old-fashioned polemic that formerly exalted Gluck as a righteous reformer...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014

JANÁČEK; SCHUMANN Piano Works

In this Wigmore Hall recital, Jonathan Biss sets out to demonstrate how much influence Schumann had on Janáček. He does...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2014

MESSIAEN Turangalîla Symphony

Juanjo Mena’s 2012 Turangalîla-Symphonie for Hyperion felt like the dawning of a new Messiaenic age. As I said in my...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014

VERDI Giovanna d'Arco

As Anna Netrebko cycles out of bel canto and into more lirico-spinto Verdi roles, Giovanna d’Arco stands at the halfway...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY; CHOPIN Piano Concertos No 1

Ingolf Wunder first came to public attention in 2010 when he was awarded joint second prize in the International Chopin...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014

James Rhodes: 5; Piano Man

Behind pianist James Rhodes’s punk-rock persona and harrowing back story lies a sincere, communicative and mindful musician. He always holds...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014

STRAVINSKY Chant du Rossignol PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 8

Stravinsky and Prokofiev had a long friendship, if that is the right word for a relationship that was mutually influential...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 09/2014

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier

Samuil Feinberg’s magnificent Russian recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (taped 1958-61) commands a range of keyboard colour that at times...

Reviewed in issue AW2014

In Praise of St Columba

I suspect that at least two of the previous directors of music at Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge, Patrick...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW2014

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