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JS BACH English Suite No 2 PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 6
In her accompanying essay to this release (there is no specific biography), the Danish pianist Elisabeth Nielsen claims that the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2015
Cherkassky Live - 80th Birthday Recital
I confess to a modicum of preliminary scepticism. Surely a pianist just turned 80, and one who has built his...
Reviewed in issue 1/1993
To Music
Tacked on to the end of this disc, almost like an apologetic afterthought and not even meriting a mention on...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/1999
BEETHOVEN The Symphonies (Nézet-Séguin)
Keen listeners to the Mozart/da Ponte, Schumann and Mendelssohn cycles from Nézet-Séguin and the COE will find much to enjoy...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2022
Songs my Father taught me
Russian-born but based in America, Sergey Schepkin can count Gregory Sokolov among his teachers. Something of a Bach specialist, his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1999
Brahms Symphony No 4; Schumann Genoveva Overture
London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
Jarvi has been a prolific maker of records in the last two years, and I imagine that most collectors would...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Arrangements for 2 pianos/String quartet
Cyprien Katsaris | Hélène Mercier | James Boyd | Krysia Osostowicz | Richard Lester | Zebra Trio
Brahms’s Piano Quintet – one of the early masterpieces of the genre, along with Schumann’s – took a while to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2012
Brahms Violin Concerto; Schumann Symphony No 4
Northern Sinfonia | Thomas Zehetmair
Having the soloist both play and conduct the Beethoven Violin Concerto is feasible, due mainly to the score’s structural simplicity...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2007
Rinck Organ Works
I hope the plaudits Naxos frequently receive for their willingness to explore unusual repertoire haven’t gone to their heads. Publicity...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1998
New Year's Concert 2006
Mariss Jansons | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
A year after being overshadowed by the horror of the Asian tsunami, the Vienna New Year Concert of 2006 was...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2006
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