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Review of Luzzaschi: Madrigals

Luzzaschi: Madrigals

As IF explained in his review of the LP, the music on this recording was at one time a closely-guarded...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Review of Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5

All four sonatas on Uchida's new disc come from the 1774–5 set of six which were the first the 18-year-old...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1988

Review of Mansurian String Quartets Nos 1 and 2;Testament

Mansurian String Quartets Nos 1 and 2;Testament

Since settling in Armenia in 1947 at the age of eight (he was born in Lebanon), Tigran Mansurian has been...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2006

Review of R. Strauss Tome Poems

R. Strauss Tome Poems

There is no shortage of good recordings of Also sprach Zarathustra a work that needs CD to do its orchestration...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Review of Bach Instruments and Instrumentation in the Music of J S Bach

Bach Instruments and Instrumentation in the Music of J S Bach

Of the 27 instruments used in this ‘mixed­media’ programme‚ six are held by the Musical Instrument Museum of Leipzig University....

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Review of Bel Canto Arias

Bel Canto Arias

‘A voice distinguished, among other qualities, by its rarity’. Michael Parouty, in Hugh Graham’s elegant translation, is writing, at the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2004

Review of Paganini Studies

Paganini Studies

The surprise element in this formidable programme is provided by Ignaz Friedman. And as befits the work of a legendary...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1992

Review of New Year's Eve Concert 1992

New Year's Eve Concert 1992

I found this a distressing experience. Strauss's pieces can have seldom been played with such virtuosity, even by the same...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Review of Mozart: Piano Works

Mozart: Piano Works

That Claudio Arrau, 87 this year, still has plenty to tell us about Mozart is not in doubt. What you...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1990

Review of Works by Roosenschoon

Works by Roosenschoon

The South African composer Hans Roosenschoon, now in his mid-thirties, is showing encouraging signs of reacting constructively to several very...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1986


 

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