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VIVALDI Solo Concertos

In the course of a long and extraordinarily prolific career, Antonio Vivaldi wrote a considerable number of virtuoso concertos. Many...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: AW2014

The Rascal and the Sparrow: Poulenc meets Piaf

Entitled ‘The Rascal and the Sparrow: Poulenc meets Piaf’, Antonio Pompa-Baldi presents an irresistible ‘conversation between two icons’. Cabaret and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014

Rarities of Piano Music 2013

What would we do without the annual Schloss vor Husum Festival? Here, pianists, known and unknown, gratefully gather to respond...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW14

A Night With Friedrich Gulda

With his crazy Nelson Mandela shirt, purple shades and head cap of many colours, Friedrich Gulda looks every bit the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014

LISZT Etudes d’exécution transcendante. Mephisto Waltz No 1

Following his masterly disc of the Chopin Ballades (Fondamenta, 4/12), Jean Muller continues with Liszt’s 12 Etudes d’exécution transcendante. And...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014

JS BACH Six Partitas BWV825-30

I’ve noted in these pages before the re emergence of the 16 foot register (sounding an octave below normal pitch)...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2014

Nine Daies Wonder

When in 1599 Will Kemp, great clown of the age, late a member of Shakespeare’s company and probably the creator...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2014

Mozart Arranged

The four Mozart-Grieg Sonatas have garnered more opprobrium than affection over the years but they still pop up occasionally. This...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Fortepiano and Cello

We’ve had Beethoven’s complete music for cello and piano on period instruments before – notably from Pieter Wispelwey and Paul...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2014

Pumeza: Voice of Hope

There are two distinct facets to Pumeza Matshikiza’s vocal personality on this CD: the singer who is now a ‘fully...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: AW2014

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