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Poulenc Piano Works Vol 3

The third and final volume of Pascal Roge’s Poulenc cycle provides a glorious mix of styles and attitudes. You may...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1999

Bach Organ Works, Vol 11

Subtitled ‘The Works for Organ’, Bowyer and Nimbus have extended this remit slightly to include some other keyboard works which...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/1999

Mahler Complete Symphonies

As I remarked when reviewing Claudio Abbado’s cycle (DG, 12/95), I would not myself opt for any one conductor’s Mahler...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Ernst Levy: Vol 2 - Forgotten Genius plays Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven

Marston's second two-disc tribute to Ernst Levy (born in Switzerland in 1895 though American-based for most of his life) focuses...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2000

Brahms Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata

The phenomenal success of Maxim Vengerov, still in his early twenties, has rested till now largely on the Russian romantic...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1999

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

Returning to this after a longish period (and without the American LPs now at hand for direct comparison), I find...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Glass, L Symphonies Nos. 3 and 6

It comes as no surprise to learn that Glass’s Third Symphony (Wood‚ 1900­01) was ‘one of the most frequently performed...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Mozart Concertos for Two and Three Pianos

Mozart's concertos for two and three pianos and orchestra, written at Salzburg in the latter half of the 1770s, might...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2008

Copland Complete Edited Piano Works

Franci’s hyperbolic booklet-note leaves one in no doubt as to his advocacy of this music. There’s some exquisitely detailed playing...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1999

Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann

These days each new Hoffmann seems to have not merely its individual cast but its own individual text. Not so...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 6/1989

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