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Debussy: Works for Two Pianos

The names of Stephen Coombs and Christopher Scott were unknown to me until this issue came my way, and indeed...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1990

Chopin Piano Sonata No 2; Schumann Carnaval

How fascinating and instructive to return to legendary performances from the past, to find confirmation of greatness here, a lessening...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2009

(The) Triumph of Oriana

So soon after the arrival of a disc of the Oriana madrigals from I Fagiolini, here is another. Relative excellence...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 5/2003

Handel Arie e duetti d'amore

This is a slightly curious collection, more the kind of programme one might chance upon in an informal recital in...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1997

Virtuoso Clarinet Kari Kriikku

Steve Martland has written a Big English String Piece. It's not his Introduction and Allegro, exactly, nor his Tallis Fantasia...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1992

Songs to Shakespeare

Here is another of those excellent programmes resourcefully devised by Graham Johnson, bringing down from the shelves all sorts of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Shostakovich Chamber Works

The first two movements of Shostakovich's Violin Sonata inhabit much the same world as Prokofiev's First Sonata, which was superbly...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Mayr (l')amor coniugale

Beethoven was the fourth composer to set Bouilly’s play Léonore, after Gaveaux (1798), Paer (1804) and Mayr (1805). This first...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2008

Cameron Carpenter - Revolutionary

My introduction to Cameron Carpenter (b1981) was on YouTube last year. The clip showed a young organist in white bespangled...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2008

Grieg Choral Works

Olav Trygvason is the nearest that Grieg ever came to opera. He began it at the height of his fascination...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1995

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