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Palestrina Canticum Canticorum

Palestrina published this cycle on texts from the Song of Songs in 1584 as his fourth book of motets‚ but...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Schubert/Dvorák Piano Trios

Though the catalogue abounds in fine performances of both these works, this is the only currently available coupling of the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1992

Rossini Messa di Gloria

It is a mystery why Rossini's Messa di gloria is so little known. He wrote the work—a ninemovement setting of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992

Haydn Cello Concertos

In his review of the LP of Haydn's cello concertos RG remarked both upon the stunning virtuosity of Christophe Coin...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1985

Toradze Piano Recital

Although he won the Van Cliburn competition back in 1977 and left Russia for the USA in 1983, Alexander Toradze...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Copland: Piano Works

Copland's Piano Fantasy, as the composer has admitted in Copland since 1943 (St Martin's Press, New York: 1989), by the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1990

Respighi Belkis, Queen of Sheba; Metamorphoseon

The enterprising Geoffrey Simon, fuelled with suggestions from the ever-searching Edward Johnson, has been illuminating a number of unexpected and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1985

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Here, significantly and intriguingly, is Pollini in the early (1973) and later (2002) stages of his career, and while he...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2003

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3, etc

It is obviously not the sentimental aspect of Rachmaninov's music that has attracted Zoltan Kocsis to record all of the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1986

Bach Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, bks. 1 & 2

Kenneth Gilbert's recording of Bach's 48 greatly impressed me when I first heard the five-record issue in 1984. I have...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987

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