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Beethoven Piano Concertos

It is true no doubt that Beethoven had a rumbustious, heavy-handed, unpredictable side to his nature, but they are qualities...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1996

Flute Concertos - Michael Faust

This unusual programme is imaginative and satisfying. Bernstein fans will want it for Halil, currently absent from the catalogue, and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1994

Daniel Barenboim - (The) Warsaw Recital

Few of Daniel Barenboim’s infrequent past recorded encounters with Chopin hint at the depth, maturity, insight and tonal luster that...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2011

Bruckner Symphony 9

Sinopoli’s live Dresden performance of the Ninth Symphony is long-drawn, intent, severely controlled. That was my first, not entirely favourable,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1999

Handel Chamber Works

The idea of alternating trio sonatas with cantatas is a happy one, based perhaps on the idea that people play...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/1998

Soler Concertos for Two Organs

That Padre Soler wrote these six concertos for Carlos III's son, the Infante Don Gabriel de Borbon, to play with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1992

Schumann Davidsbündlertänze; Intermezzi, Op 4

Angela Hewitt has picked two of Schumann’s more recalcitrant offspring for her latest recital. While both are suffused with glorious...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2007

Flute Serenade

Like the other CDI/Pickwick CDs I have enjoyed this month (see pages 79 and 131), this concert is impeccably recorded....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1990

Medtner Songs

Musical Opinion, reviewing the newly published Op. 52 in 1931, concluded that, ''very accomplished musician'' as he undoubtedly was, Medtner...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Dowland Songs

Dowland's three Bookes of Songes (1597, 1600, 1603) and A Pilgrimes Solace (1612) form an unexcelled repository of English lute-song,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1988

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