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LOURIÉ Solo Piano Works

Interest in Arthur Lourié (1892-1966), the erstwhile Soviet music commissar who defected to the West in 1922, seems to be...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2017

KAGEL improvisation ajoutée. rrrrr....

This is a fascinating CD; we hear sounds from a pipe organ far removed from the everyday world of choral...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2017

CHOPIN 24 Preludes SCHUMANN Fantasie

The Cuban-born American-based pianist Horacio Gutiérrez has enjoyed a successful international career for more than four decades, yet he’s made...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2017

CAVAZZONI Complete Organ Works

Admirers of European keyboard music of the 16th century will welcome this recording of Cavazzoni’s complete organ works. The programme...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2017

BRITTEN Cello Suites

Evidence of Quirine Viersen’s pedigree in period performance is inescapable in her performance of Britten’s three cello suites, written for...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 7, 13, 109-111

Early and late works make up the fifth and final volume of Paavali Jumppanen’s Beethoven sonata cycle. He brings a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2017

Elīna Garanča: Revive

The newest role Elı-na Garan∂a has added to her stage repertoire is Léonor in Donizetti’s La favorite. This recital, though,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2017

WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen

Rudolf Kempe (here caught in his second of four Bayreuth Ring years) is not a pusher nor a prodder nor...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2017

PERGOLESI Adriano in Siria

Pergolesi had weightier operatic ambitions than the buffet-sized buffo of La serva padrona. In 1734 he served up the elaborate...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2017

PAISIELLO Fedra

No, this is not Fedora. The Italian title masks the identity of Phaedra, wife of Theseus, whose passion for her...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2017

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