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Bach Cantatas

Philippe Herreweghe’s selective series of Bach cantata recordings has, for me, been a mixed bag, too often diminished in stature...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998

Born of the Human Soul - Ciurlionis Piano Works

Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1911) was a figure of crucial importance to Lithuania, and not just in music (he was also...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1998

Hindemith Orchestral Works

Hindemith was rather fond of the theme and variations format, but the Four Temperaments must be one of his finest....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1993

Beethoven & Mozart Piano and Wind Quintets

Only last month I was hailing the new CBS version of this coupling ''as a clear first choice and likely...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1986

Romantic Piano Concerto - Volume 4

At the end of his balanced and informative sleeve-note Jeremy Nicholas suggests that ''there must always be a place for...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Piazzolla El Tango

The new tango form owes an immeasurable debt to the classically trained Astor Piazzolla (he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger),...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 8/1998

Giordano Andrea Chenier

Opera’s favourite encounter with the French Revolution is back, and with it the kind of starry operatic production by a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2010

Massenet Werther

My initial prejudice against bringing forward the action of Massenet’s masterpiece of sentiment to the 1950s was mostly assuaged by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2006

Clifford Curzon: 1941-1972

You might call the Mozart concerto recordings ‘the lost sessions’ because they are making their first reappearance in nearly half...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2004

Russian Cello Concertos

The real surprise here is the Kabalevsky. In the past I've found getting to know Kabalevsky more of a duty...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1988

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