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BARBER Vanessa (Hrůša)

Since it was unveiled at last year’s Glyndebourne Festival, Keith Warner’s handsome and perceptive staging of Barber’s Vanessa has probably...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

ARNE The Judgment of Paris

Arne’s The Judgement of Paris, about the notorious mythological beauty contest that eventually provoked the Trojan War, was first performed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019

John Williams: Vivaldi etc

What a delight is this sixth and latest release from John Williams’s own JCW Recordings. Indeed, it takes me right...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2019

Melvyn Tan: Miroirs

For his latest solo CD, Melvyn Tan offers works by Ravel alongside pieces by other composers that somehow mirror the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019

Rebecca Maurer: Haydn and his London disciples

The piano is a Broadwood from 1816, the two sonatas works composed during Haydn’s visits to London for such an...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

Rupert Boyd: The Guitar

It may seem curious that of the 10 works (counting the Brouwer Estudios sencillos – ‘Simple Studies’ – as two,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019

Ars longa: Old and new music for Theorbo (Elizabeth Kenny)

At first glance, it is hard to imagine anything cheerful coming from a theorbo. It even looks like an instrument...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2019

SCHUMANN Fantasie. Kreisleriana. Kinderszenen (Ponthus)

Listeners familiar with these oft-recorded works will notice that Marc Ponthus often favours faster and freer tempos than one commonly...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019

SCHUBERT Late Piano Works Vol 1 (Andrea Lucchesini)

The first volume in Andrea Lucchesini’s projected survey of Schubert’s late piano works cheats a bit by including the relatively...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019

SCHNABEL Complete Works for Piano (Jenny Lin)

Until recently, my experience of Artur Schnabel as composer was limited to the stylistic disconnect of the cadenzas to his...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019

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