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In the Chopin and Weber/Liszt pieces it is nearly all up to the pianist, and Dichter responds with poetic grace...

Reviewed in issue 8/1984

Prokofiev Piano Concertos, etc

No disrespect to Prokofiev, but Beroff and Masur really do make music of these concertos. I have heard more rampant...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1989

Cochereau L'Improvisateur extraordinaire

Entitled ‘L’improvisateur extraordinaire’, this disc ought to be sub-headed ‘Jeremy Filsell – transcripteur extraordinaire’, for Filsell is one of a...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Messiaen Quatour pour la fin du Temps

When putting words on paper‚ Messiaen could at times slide into the sort of purple prose that for years gave...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Bach Partitas for Organ

For this recording the Herrick/Hyperion team have returned to Bremgarten, the scene of their earlier triumph with the organ sonatas...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1992

British Light Overtures

Just what music qualifies as ‘light’ remains a vexed question. The earliest overture in this collection‚ Walter Carroll’s Festive Overture‚...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Prokofiev Cinderella

Michail Jurowski has been working his way through Russian-Soviet repertoire with a variety of orchestras for both CPO and Capriccio....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: /2000

Handel Oratorios arranged by Mozart

It is not always easy to avoid writing a shade smugly about the arrangements Mozart made of choral works by...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1992

(The) Ocean that has no West and no East

Each item in this imaginative recital strikes sparks off its neighbours. At the recital’s still heart, the second of the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2000

Glazunov Piano Works, Vol. 1

Glazunov may have possessed a fundamentally conservative nature but, as this first volume in Tatyana Franova's complete cycle of the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1993

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