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HOWELLS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3. Cradle Song

Since the pioneering recording of Howells’s three violin sonatas, Opp 18, 26 and 38, by Paul Barritt and Catherine Edwards...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2014

DUPONT Poème. Journée de printemps

Gabriel Dupont, who lived to the age of only 36 before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1914, is one of those...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas. Clarinet Trio

Non-committed beginnings, and a whiff of detachment pervades the first movement of the E minor Cello Sonata. Ian Brown keeps...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2014

BIBER Mystery Sonatas

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s so-called Mystery Sonatas are the best-known works of a composer superficially remembered for the extreme virtuosity...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

John Ogdon – The Complete RCA Album Collection

RCA/Sony Classical’s six-CD album of John Ogdon’s complete RCA Red Seal recordings plus an additional Liszt recital from Japan coincides...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014

STRAUSS Salome

It’s taken a little while for this Salome, filmed at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale in early 2010, to make it to...

Reviewed in issue 08/2014

STRAUSS Capriccio

Still a relative rarity in the opera house, Strauss’s last opera benefits perhaps more than any of his other works...

Reviewed in issue 08/2014

ROSSINI Maometto Secondo

Mehmet II was the Ottoman sultan who captured Byzantine Constantinople in 1453. The portrait attributed to Gentile Bellini, on display...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014

ROSSINI Le Comte Ory

The lovely small Zurich Opernhaus is ideal for Rossini – as it is for Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier and their...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2014

PUCCINI Turandot

Long one of my favourite productions of anything, the Andrei Serban Turandot arrives on video, some 30 years after I...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014

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