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Schumann Kreisleriana; Waldszenen

The Russian-born, French-adopted pianist, Valery Afanassiev, is difficult to assess. While able to make his piano 'speak' in many different...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1994

The Art of Alessandro Valente

The most famous record comes first; the best comes last. This (the best) is from Wolf-Ferrari's Sly, an opera which...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Brahms/Dvorák String Quartets

London audiences are lucky to have the Skampa Quartet as a more-or-less permanent fixture, primarily at the Wigmore Hall where...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Bach, CPE Harpsichord Concerto; Cello Concerto; Symphonies

There has been a lot of CPE Bach around just lately, but this 2000 recording, reissued in Harmonia Mundi’s anniversary...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2008

Piazzolla Concerto pour bandonéon; Tangos

Harmonia Mundi's disc (recorded 10 years ago) came as a revelation to many who, as Lionel Salter predicted in his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2007

Young Voices of the Opera-Alexandrina Pendatchanska

Readers are most likely to have come across this Bulgarian soprano before in A Life for the Tsar under Tchakarov...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Alfred Brendel Edition, Box 1

For his sixty-fifth birthday Philips present Alfred Brendel – the finest scholar-pianist of our time – with a 25-disc tribute...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996

Langlais Organ Works

As Langlais was organist at St Clotilde and Pierre Cogen is his immediate successor in that post, this seems a...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1991

Basso Profondo from Old Russia

Meet the octavists. These are the sub-basses of the Russian choirs, the originators of what at first you think is...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Gounod Sapho

Sapho was Gounod's first opera, composed in 1850 at the behest of Pauline Viardot, who took the title-role when it...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1994

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