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Prokofiev Songs

Prokofiev said that he disliked setting regular rhyming verse, and the only conventionally strophic songs here are either folk-like (the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1989

Chopin Piano Works

As with Pommier's recent Erato disc of Chopin's Waltzes (3/94), the recording venue for this new recital was Fontfroide Abbey...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1994

Britten Cello Symphony; Cello Suite No 1

Even at a time when most leading cellists are exploring the works that Britten wrote for Mstislav Rostropovich, Pieter Wispelwey...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 13/2010

Sibelius Orchestral Works

Generally speaking the Scenes historiques are relatively – but only relatively – free from the eccentricity that has sometimes marked...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1997

Handel (Il) trionfo del tempo e del disinganno

Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, of 1707, was Handel’s first oratorio; in its third and final incarnation 50...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Knappertsbusch conducts Bruckner

In the dark and increasingly desperate days of 1944 and early 1945, the music of Bruckner was played and broadcast...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1996

Nielsen Violin Sonatas

Nielsen's violin sonatas here make their CD debut. There is a by no means negligible modern recording by Kim Sjogren...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Guitar Music of Ferranti and Ferrer

The demolition of the notion that, in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the guitar died through starvation (no...

Reviewed in issue 7/1987

Purcell (O) Solitude

Other continental early music luminaries may flee from talk of Purcell, but as one of the most distinctive and intelligent...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2003

Vivaldi: Cello Sonatas

Nine cello sonatas by Vivaldi have survived. Six of them were published as a set in Paris in about 1740;...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1989

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