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Liszt: Piano Works

Those lovers of Liszt who have not heard of Mikhail Pletnev should sit up and take note! If any pianist...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1987

Mendelssohn Die beiden Pädagogen

Here are delights. None of these pieces is often staged, and only alert record collectors will have caught up with...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1998

Harold Bauer Victor & Schirmer Records

Following their disc of Bauer's 1924-8 recordings (9/93), and this time having the grace to divulge some facts about the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1994

(La) Voce nel Violino

Virtuoso violin-playing emerged in Italy at the beginning of the 17th century. The earliest sonatas offer a succession of declamatory...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 6/2008

Rameau Pièces de clavecin en concerts

There are several recordings of Rameau's enchanting Pieces de clavecin en concerts currently in the catalogue; and so it should...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1994

Nielsen Symphony No 3; Sibelius Symphony No 5

Jascha Horenstein did not live quite long enough to inspire the degree of veneration accorded a “Grand Old Man” like...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2009

Gubaidulina - Portrait

This unusual and interesting CD focuses on the music Sofia Gubaidulina was composing in her relatively early years. Anyone convinced...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2010

Donizetti Anna Bolena

Bergamo‚ Donizetti’s home town‚ was appropriately the city where Anna Bolena‚ the master’s first decisive success‚ had its first revival...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Machy Pièces de viole

Although Sieur de Machy's 1685 volume of Pieces de Viole was the first of its kind to be published, it...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Choral Music of the English Romantics

Formed in 1982, His Majestie’s Clerkes are a Chicago-based a cappella group of high quality (guest conductors have numbered Sir...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1998

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