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Montsalvatge Complete Works for Piano

Although the first of these two discs is titled ‘Complete Works for Piano’, the first thing one notices from the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2003

John Cage at Summerstage

This is a memento of an extraordinary occasion – John Cage’s last concert appearance on July 23rd, 1992, in the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2000

Schütz Motets

These two releases (both of which present a number of works not otherwise in the catalogue) make a useful complementary...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1992

Anon St John Passion

As the earliest surviving complete polyphonic setting of the 'turba' passages in a Passion, this work has a significant place...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1987

Strauss Arabella

A performance recorded in Munich in 1963 had the same Arabella, Mandryka and conductor (DG, 11/95 – nla). That production...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2006

Lachenmann NUN

Both these releases qualify as essential listening. Though composed about 15 years apart, NUN and Ausklang have much in common....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2008

C.P.E. Bach: Sinfonias & Concertos

All the music in this new disc from Deutsche Harmonia Mundi is currently available elsewhere in The Classical Catalogue and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1991

Elgar Symphony no 1; In the South

As Elgar himself said to the young Boult after a triumphant performance of the Second Symphony in 1920 – till...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2002

Donizetti (L') Elisir d'amore

As befits a comedy of manners with an exceptionally precise musical setting – and we’re talking about mood, not date...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 1/2010

Haydn Trios

A well-contrasted programme of late Haydn piano trios in sympathetic performances makes for a tempting proposition. I particularly enjoyed the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1999

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