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Chopin Waltzes

Like the last young contender, Philip Fowke on CfP, both Alexeev and Katsaris offer the waltzes complete—all 19 of them,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1985

Maw Hymnus/Little Concert/Shahnama

Hymnus is firmly rooted in the tradition of large-scale English choral works, full of luminous harmonies, rich choral textures and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/2000

Pärt Berliner Messe

Lately I’ve noticed that artificial Glass has increasingly been supplanted by pseudo-Pärt on TV and film soundtracks. The most popular...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2004

Elgar Chamber Works

The Vellinger Quartet, a group entirely new to me (and many others, I suspect—why no brief biography in the booklet?)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1995

Schubert Sonatas for Violin and Piano

It seems strange that Schubert’s three little violin and piano sonatas of 1816 are comparatively neglected (D385‚ in A minor‚...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Schubert String Quartets

At the beginning of 1824 Schubert began work on a set of three string quartets. The first, in A minor,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Stravinsky Rite of Spring; Pulcinella

The booklet’s interior artwork – a jagged cubist pattern of white print on a black background and vice-versa – will...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/1999

Glass Akhnaten

Akhnaten, Philip Glass's third opera, is a work of relatively compact dimensions but with all the qualities of epic about...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Handel Acis and Galatea

Handel’s earliest English masterpiece was created for the Duke of Chandos in 1718, and probably first performed at the Duke’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2004

Hess, N Piano Concerto

Nigel Hess was commissioned by Prince Charles to write a piano concerto in memory of his grandmother that would be...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 13/2008

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