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DEBUSSY La chute de la maison Usher. Le diable dans le beffroi

For the last 16 years of his life, Debussy worked intermittently on a pair of one-act operas based on the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16

BEETHOVEN Fidelio

This Fidelio was among the high-profile offerings at the 2015 Salzburg Festival. Jonas Kaufmann led the cast with the excellent...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16

Gaudeamus Igitur

The organ of the McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh, is now back in action after a major overhaul. Built in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16

American First Sonatas

This is the first volume in a project to, as the blurb puts it, ‘show the stylistic breadth, high musical...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16

Music for Piano Duos

The music of György Kurtág, who celebrated his 90th birthday in February, is enjoying a richly deserved if belated groundswell...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW16

JONES 8 Sets of lessons for the Harpsichord

Harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson has tremendous fun with these Eight Setts of Lessons for the Harpsichord by the English composer John...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW16

HENZE Complete Music for Solo Guitar

It’s often said that Hans Werner Henze’s music for solo guitar displays a more intimate, lyrical aspect of the German...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW16

GLINKA Piano Variations. Nocturnes. A Greeting to my Homeland

Glinka’s piano music holds its place in the repertoire about as firmly as his (far more significant) operas A Life...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 3, 23 & 30

As a Beethoven interpreter, Angela Brownridge hits and misses. Her long experience with Op 2 No 3 reveals itself in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW16

BARTÓK Solo Violin Sonata KURTÁG Signs, Games and Messages

If dozens of recordings of Bartók’s Solo Sonata are available, scarcely a handful of violinists have recorded the solo pieces...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW16

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