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Holst (The) Planets

The sleeve promises a ‘memorable audiovisual experience’ featuring ‘spectacular images which enhance the symbolic meaning attributed to each planet by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2005

Second Viennese School

''Neue Wiener Schule'', proclaims the heading. Today, the ''new Viennese school'' ought to be the likes of H. K. Gruber...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1987

Beethoven Piano Works

''... He played for an hour or so on the great, long piano with its strong sound, already quite battered,...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 4/1989

Cape Complete Piano Music, Volume 2

I raved about the first volume in this series which contained all Cage’s music for prepared piano performed to the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/1998

Massenet Werther

What is to become of French opera if the French themselves take so little interest in it? The list of...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 10/1999

Felicity Lott - s'amuse...'auf Deutsch'

In the days of 78s‚ a singer might record a couple of light songs‚ and the disc would achieve collectors’...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Prokofiev - Piano Works and Transcriptions

Schubert and Schoenberg are the chalk and the cheese at either end of Viennese romanticism. Schoenberg was well aware of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2000

Josquin Des Prez Missa Fortuna Desperata

Given Josquin’s stature it is barely credible that a couple of his Masses still await representation on CD. I can...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Britten Piano Concerto; Diversions

Commissioned as a 24-year-old to compose and perform a piano concerto for the 1938 Proms, Britten played safe. None of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2008

Bush, A Works for Violin & Piano

This an attractive and stimulating follow-up to Meridian’s first collection of Alan Bush’s chamber music (11/02), a medium in which...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2005

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