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'Beethoven the Conquering Hero' Complete Cello Sonatas (Jennifer Kloetzel)

Sample Jennifer Kloetzel’s solo phrase at the start of Beethoven’s Variations on Handel’s ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ and you’ll...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022

BARGIEL Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

My first encounter with the music of Woldemar Bargiel (1828 97) was in 1997 and Steven Isserlis’s recording of his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022

CPE BACH Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano (François Lazarevitch)

I think CPE Bach would have got on well with François Lazarevitch, such is the quantity of curiosity and imagination...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2022

Collector: Mozart Concertos

What’s the collective noun for bassoons? A grumble of bassoons, after the Grandfather in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf? A...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2022

Ophélie Gaillard: A Night in London

While mention of the Baroque cello repertoire might first prompt thoughts of Italy, the title of this programme from Ophélie...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2022

Amarcord d'Un Tango

‘Amarcord d’un Tango’, saxophonist Marco Albonetti writes in a booklet note, ‘was created to offer the listener a brief journey...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022

VANHAL Symphonies, Vol 5

This latest volume from Naxos devoted to the symphonies of the prolific Bohemian figure Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813) fittingly bears...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2022

STRAVINSKY Ballets (Rattle)

Performing all three of Stravinsky’s early ballets in a single evening (I remember it well) was a tall order, even...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2022

STRAUSS; KORNGOLD; SCHREKER "Metamorphosen"

While Metamorphosen may be the finest music here, lending its name to yet another distinctive album from John Wilson’s Sinfonia...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022

SCHNELZER A Freak in Burbank

Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer (b1972) does a good line in clear musical imagery, responds with immediacy to clear ideas and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2022

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