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Messiaen Organ Works

I much admired at least two of Trotter’s CDs for Argo, especially his Liszt double-bill with the Ad nos and...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1996

Purcell Funeral Music for Queen Mary; Te Deum; Anthems

With Robert King's voyage of discovery for Hyperion through Purcell's sacred music continuing to peer round every corner and admire...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/1994

Nielsen Maskerade

If you can keep a straight face through the master/servant antics of the club-addicts Leander and Henrik, if you can...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Berlioz Roméo et Juliette

No composer has ever been so deeply devoted to Shakespeare, nor understood him so creatively, as Berlioz. Accepting the challenge...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1998

Verdi Aida

This set is based on the much-criticized staging, by Luca Ronconi, at La Scala, first seen in December 1985–January 1986...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1990

Kodaly Sonata

It takes remarkable powers of concentration for a performer to sustain nearly an hour of solo cello music without any...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2011

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 1-3 & 15

Listen to Stephen Kovacevich anywhere in these four sonatas and the authentic voice of Beethoven leaps out at you. The...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 13/1999

Mozart Piano Concertos 1-4

‘These performances follow the original practice in Salzburg and use an orchestra without cellos’, says a note in the booklet....

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Great Opera Singers - Christoff, Gobbi, Janowitz & Streich

Precious mementos here – including the so-called ‘bonus’ tracks. But why, will anyone tell me, are they ‘bonus tracks’ at...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2005

Works for clarinet and orchestra

As a recent winner of the ''BBC Young Musician of the Year'' award, Emma Johnson can be assumed to have...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

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