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Ezio Pinza (1892-1957) - III

This, the latest instalment in Preiser’s Pinza edition (Vol. 1 was reviewed in 3/92) is made up of some of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1997

Dvorák/Schumann/Mendelssohn Lieder

The duets are the most successful of the performances here, occasioning a regret that the programme had not been what...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

British Orchestral Works

Grant Llewellyn's Butterworth is a model of sensitivity and poise. To be truthful, I don't think I've ever heard the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1993

Beethoven/Haydn Piano Concertos

Beethoven composed his Fourth Piano Concerto between late 1805 and early 1806. There was a private performance of the work...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Schubert Octet

“I feel myself to be the unhappiest, most wretched creature in the world.” Thus, on March 31st, 1824, Schubert wrote...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Wagner The Ring - orchestral highlights

Not so long ago I was reviewing an impressive studio recording from Chesky (2/98), conducted by Charles Gerhardt, of much...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1998

Alwyn Movements for Piano etc

Anyone who finds Prokofiev, Bartok or Stravinsky’s piano music insufferably rude may value Alwyn’s object lessons in refined behaviour. Others...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2000

(The) Eight Seasons

It is over a decade now since Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica introduced us to this unusual interleaving of works,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2011

Schnittke Chamber Music, Volume 1

Reviewing the BIS disc listed above, which included Schnittke's String Trio, DJF declared: ''there will surely be a finer recording...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1994

Toby Twining Shaman

American composer Toby Twining (b. 1958) studied composition with Ben Johnson at the University of Illinois and piano with Helen...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 2/1995

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