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Review of Schumann Kreisleriana; Waldszenen

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

Review of The Art of Alessandro Valente

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

Review of Brahms/Dvorák String Quartets

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

Review of Bach, CPE Harpsichord Concerto; Cello Concerto; Symphonies

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

Review of Piazzolla Concerto pour bandonéon; Tangos

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

Review of Young Voices of the Opera-Alexandrina Pendatchanska

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

Review of Alfred Brendel Edition, Box 1

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

Review of Langlais Organ Works

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

Review of Basso Profondo from Old Russia

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

Review of Gounod Sapho

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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