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MASSENET Complete Piano Works

Think of Massenet and you think of Werther, Manon and the ‘Méditation’ from Thaïs – and not necessarily of piano...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

LISZT Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems

Since its inception in 1987, the Naxos Liszt series has released a number of superb recordings. The names Arnaldo Cohen,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016

HELLER Variations for Piano. Kinderszenen. Notenbuch für Klein und Gross

Stephen Heller (1813 88) sits below the salt and on these showings at least he is unlikely to win a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

FIELD Complete Nocturnes

Not one but two sets of Field nocturnes have come my way this month (Ewa Pobłocka’s period-instrument set is reviewed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2016

Rolf Lislevand: La Mascarade; DE VISEÉ Pieces for théorbe

Baroque guitarists Francesco Corbetta and his pupil Robert de Visée were masters of chiaroscuro, of nuance, suggestion and – unintentionally...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2016

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 9, 16, 19, 20 & 26

Angela Hewitt leaves few stones unturned in projecting the linear specificity of Beethoven’s style. In Op 31 No 1’s first...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2016

JS BACH Clavier-Übung III, BWV669-89

Bookended by the great Prelude and Fugue in E flat, the third part of the Clavier Übung appeared in 1739...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2016

Cameron Carpenter: All you need is Bach

For those who enjoy the spectacle of breathtaking fingerwork and dazzling articulation, who marvel at impeccable accuracy at incredible speeds...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2016

WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen

Following his 1980-83 studio cycle with the Dresden Staatskapelle (Eurodisc, currently on Sony), Marek Janowski’s Pentatone set with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2016

ROSSINI Il viaggio a Reims

‘This opera is a feast’ was Stendhal’s judgement on Il viaggio a Reims, though this sophisticated entertainment, written at the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2016

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