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Massenet Werther

This film was made in 1955 but in a style that was already long out of date. The singers act...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2009

Scriabin Late Piano Works

Virtuoso ease and well modulated, evenly balanced sonorities have always marked Paul Crossley’s way with repertoire that fuses thorny and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2008

Clemens non Papa Behold, how joyful!

The last disc devoted to Jacobus Clemens I listened to was The Tallis Scholars’ recording of his Mass Pastores, quidnam...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2005

Beethoven; Ravel; Schumann Piano Works

Sergei Dukachev’s miscellany clearly aims to show his musical scope and range, whether in the virtuoso ebullience of Beethoven’s Op...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003

Stephen Hough's Mozart Album

This is the kind of musical meal that any pianist with the imagination and culinary skills of a good chef...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2008

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

These three sonatas span around 14 years in their dates of composition and thus can be thought of as s...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1986

Perti Messa; Salmi; Sinfonie & Magnificat

The 250th anniversary of the remarkably long-lived Bolognese composer Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661-1756) passed without much attention, but his music...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2007

Knappertsbusch conducts Schubert & Weber

The Second Symphony (1970, rev. 1995) is one of Aho’s most closely argued, a dark-hued, compelling series of three linked...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Cui: Orchestral Works

Cui, a member of the original Russian 'Five', was a dedicated encourager of the other members of the group (and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

Meditterranean

Over and above evoking the real world of which it’s a part, a well thought-out recital creates another, imaginary world,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2008

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