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Merkel Complete Organ Sonatas
Adrian Partington | Faye Clinton
The reputation of Gustav Merkel (1827-85) rests mostly on the short organ pieces included in anthologies compiled by C H...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2000
Josef Hofmann, Vol 5
Efrem Zimbalist | Josef Hofmann
Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) is among music’s most jealously guarded legends. For his admirers (and they included Anton Rubinstein and Rachmaninov)...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1997
Vassily Sapellnikoff ; Xaver Scharwenka: ‘The Complete Recordings’
Aeolian Orchestra | Franz Xaver Scharwenka | Stanley Chapple
Sapellnikoff’s Tchaikovsky Concerto has appeared on CD before (notably Pearl GEMMCD9163) but not his complete extant recordings (the sides he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015
Kings Collection
“The King’s Collection.” Is it? Perhaps times have changed and this really is King’s. If so, too bad, because it...
Reviewed in issue 7/1998
Bruch/Schumann Clarinet Works
Michel Lethiec | Roberte Mamou | Vladimir Mendelssohn
Here are 54 minutes of unassuming ‘domestic’ music, played carefully without special pleading or concert-hall-type projection of any kind, and...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1996
Within a Dream
“A Celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox (1948-2008)” is how Chandos aptly describe this generous overview of an endearingly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2010
Violin Virtuoso
''Sure-way'', says the ASV publicity, helpfully guiding us over the pronunciation of this young Chinese virtuoso's name. It could hardly...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1990
Placido Domingo – Sacred Songs
The title and contents look like a page fallen from an old recipe book. At the top somebody long ago...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2003
The Sea
Roger Vignoles | Sarah Walker | Thomas Allen
Faure's Au cimetiere, a calm meditation upon a village funeral, seems at first sight out of place in an anthology...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1985
Leif Ove Andsnes - Horizons
Andsnes here reveals a hitherto hidden side to his art – the salon charmer. Some of the pieces are favourites...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2006
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