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Holloway Gilded Goldberg
Glen Inanga | Jennifer Micallef
A year or so ago I chanced upon a CD on the French Assai label featuring Josef Rheinberger’s two-piano version...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2003
LINDPAINTNER Il vespro siciliano
Mendelssohn thought him the greatest conductor of his day, and Schumann and Spohr enthused over his operas. Posterity, however, was...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW18
STANFORD Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense
Andrew West | James Way | Roderick Williams
Here’s yet another valuable instalment in Somm’s exploration of Charles Villiers Stanford. The Three Songs of Robert Bridges (1891) are...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2021
GODARD Volume 3
Anna Noakes | BBC Concert Orchestra | Christopher Cowie | Martin Yates | Sergey Levitin
Dutton’s admirable championship of Benjamin Godard (1849-95) continues with a third volume, not of piano music this time but of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022
LORTZING Zum Gross-Admiral
A rollicking tale of the sea, told by one of 19th-century Germany’s most beloved masters of comic opera. That’s what...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW22
REINECKE ‘The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 85’ (Simon Callaghan)
Modestas Pitrenas | Simon Callaghan | St Gallen Symphony Orchestra
I last encountered Simon Callaghan in Vol 76 of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series playing Rheinberger and Scholz (8/18). This...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023
Walter Widdop (1892-1949)
Widdop was of course splendid and of course it is a matter entirely for thanksgiving that a record company should...
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
Bernstein - 1950s American Decca Recordings
Leonard Bernstein | New York Stadium Symphony Orchestra
Before Leonard Bernstein turned into the house maestro of American Columbia (CBS), with a contract allowing him to record more...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2005
Double Dream
Here is a record to startle and delight those listeners who enjoy breaking free of ties previously considered sacred. For...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2004
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Emil Gilels
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Elena Gilels | Emil Gilels | Eugen Jochum
This third Gilels compilation in Philips’s Great Pianists series is not such a cornucopia as the second (see my review,...
Reviewed in issue 10/1999
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