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Paderewski - Earliest Recordings

Among the 41 titles assembled by producer Donald Manildi are eight previously unreleased sides sourced from Paderewski's own test pressings....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2008

Schubert Piano Works

Don’t be deceived by Till Fellner’s almost throwaway opening to Schubert’s Sonata, D784. His playing may not yet be so...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1998

Bach Cantatas 48, 89, 109 and 148

Bach Collegium Japan’s stately but assiduous progression through the cantatas continues with three succinct works from Bach’s first year in...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Benjamin Antara; J. Harvey Song Offerings; Boulez Orchestral Works

All credit to Nimbus for this splendid contribution to contemporary music recordings, issued within a few months of the London...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1989

Bartok Piano Concerto No 2; Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 16 & 17

Géza Anda’s all-too-brief 30-year career (he died in 1976 at the age of 54) left us with a string of...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 12/2008

Hallé Orchestra Wartime Recordings

These wartime recordings of Russian music, all supervised by Walter Legge in the Houldsworth Hall, Manchester, mark the swan-song of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1995

Casta Diva

Once again we have to count our blessings. As with the recent recital by Karita Mattila (Erato, 7/01), I feel...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Bartók: Piano works

For a CD-only issue 48 minutes may not seem a generous measure. But the programme is exceptionally well chosen, brilliantly...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

Delius’s On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring or the ‘Cherry duet’ from Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz are apt to that...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2006

Dodgson High Barbaree

This disc, devised by John Turner as an 80th-birthday offering to Stephen Dodgson, includes one work – Venus to the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2004

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