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Scriabin: Piano Sonatas

These two new CDs offer the listener differing aspects of Scriabin's music. Mikhail Rudy plays the last ten opus numbers...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1989

Whitlock Organ Works, Volume 2

These volumes of Whitlock’s complete organ music, the first of which was reviewed in 4/97, are transforming his position in...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/1998

Morales Magnificat

This recording suggests how central is Morales’s position within the High Repertoire. Often spoken of as a precursor of Palestrina,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2008

(The) Piano at the Carnival

After “A Night at the Opera” (A/08), the piano comes to the carnival. Next year we are promised a trip...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2010

Fauré (The) Complete Songs, Vol 4

‘Dans un parfum de roses’ (the quote is from La chanson d’Eve) is the title of the final volume and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2005

Handel Cantate and Duetti

Most of these vocal duets and cantatas come from Handel’s early years in Italy, in one case maybe even before...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1997

Poulenc/Guilmant/Widor Organ Works

As horoscope writers in the seamier magazines might put it, with Yan Pascal Tortelier and the BBC Philharmonic in conjunction...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1994

Shostakovich Cello Concertos

As I said in my first review, this is an important as well as a logical coupling. No doubt collectors...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1985

Beethoven Symphony No 3

Here are three Eroicas, each of which confounds critical cliches about its respective conductor. Furtwangler’s 1944 recording is swifter than...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Glass Heroes Symphony; (The) Light

Philip Glass’s Heroes Symphony (1996) was his second stab at creating an extended structure from the songs of David Bowie....

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2007

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