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GRÉTRY L'Épreuve Villageoise

André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry was an important figure in the development of opéra comique – where the musical numbers are separated by...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2017

BOITO Mefistofele

Though far from being the topless, red haired pantomime with which Samuel Ramey used to entertain us in this opera,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2017

AHMAS Käärmesormus (Snake Ring)

You can appreciate why Harri Ahmas describes his 2008 work Käärmesormus (‘Snake Ring’) as a ‘chamber opera’ but the title...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2017

The Glass Effect

Lavinia Meijer’s debut recording of Glass’s music (Channel Classics, 3/13) was a rather underwhelming experience. Consisting mainly of the dark...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2017

LISZT Early Transcriptions

Georgian-born Mariam Batsashvili won first prize at the 2014 International Franz Liszt Competition in Utrecht, the first female artist to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Music for 2 Pianos

Much painstaking detective work and considerable editorial expertise went into this first recording of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony in an...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017

SCRIABIN Complete Piano Sonatas

On February 18, 2015, Peter Donohoe undertook a remarkable tour de force of concentration, stamina and technical prowess by playing...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2017

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 2, 6 & 8

To listeners who know Alexander Melnikov’s cultivated musicality and fastidious pianism – so beautifully manifest in the series of Schumann...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2017

HENSELT Piano Works

All-Henselt discs are few and far between (the last in these pages was Piers Lane’s less than successful accounts of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2017

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Nos 33, 53, 60 and 62

No doubt about it, compared to the Mozart piano sonatas Haydn’s are still neglected. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s extended project for Chandos...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2017

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