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DONIZETTI Rita

The history of Donizetti’s Rita, completed in 1839 but left unperformed at the composer’s death, is of a complexity out...

Reviewed in issue 07/2014

BRITTEN Death in Venice

One of the advantages of watching opera on DVD is that you get the best seat in the house. In...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014

BARTÓK Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Sir John Tomlinson’s world-weary enactment of the tortured Bluebeard is variously available under the batons of James Levine (Munich Philharmonic),...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014

Joyce Yang: Wild Dreams

Basing her recital around dream and night, Joyce Yang puts unlike alongside unlike in a dream-like sequence, one where ‘impulse...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2014

A Tribute to Oscar Peterson

Andrew Litton plays transcriptions of improvisations by the much-loved jazz pianist Oscar Peterson; The Bad Plus perform what is termed...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2014

Alice Sara Ott: Scandale

The disc’s title and raison d’être escape me: ‘Scandale’ says the cover in shocking pink. The ‘Rite of Spring’ premiere...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014

The Merton Organ

All the main suspects are here: Bach, Franck, Vierne, Messiaen. Sometimes they pair up – the disc opens with Marcel...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2014

The Hidden Violin

Vaughan Jones has his hands full with this repertoire. Rare (for which read ‘obscure’) music for violin from the late...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014

Julius Katchen: Berlin 1962, 1964

Audite’s two-CD set of recordings made for RIAS Berlin in 1962 and 1964 adds several first issues to Julius Katchen’s...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014

Myung Whun Chung Recital

Myung-Whun Chung is better known these days as a conductor. But he began his career as a pianist, winning joint...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014

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