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Review of Panufnik (The) Upside Down Sailor

Panufnik (The) Upside Down Sailor

There is something here I evidently don’t understand. The Upside-down Sailor is a very good title. You could help to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2003

Review of Brahms Piano Sonata 3 etc

Brahms Piano Sonata 3 etc

Here are two outstanding discs from Ronan O’Hora, a pianist of inward thoughtfulness and refined eloquence. Following his well-received collections...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 7/1997

Review of Rossini Bianca e Falliero

Rossini Bianca e Falliero

Whatever its dramatic merits – and‚ make no mistake‚ a great performance can rivet sense – Rossini’s Bianca e Falliero...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Review of Tan Dun Marco Polo

Tan Dun Marco Polo

Mobility and re-creation are key concepts in Tan Dun’s ‘opera within an opera’, although readers expecting gravy-train minimalism will be...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Review of Chopin Solo Piano, Vol 2

Chopin Solo Piano, Vol 2

Volume 2 of Andante’s invaluable series traces a multifaceted tradition, a bewildering mix of paste and diamonds. What was once...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2005

Review of Curtis, M Orchestral Works, Vol 3

Curtis, M Orchestral Works, Vol 3

Ivan March and Andrew Achenbach reviewed two previous Campion CDs of music by Matthew Curtis (3/03; 5/05). That this third...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2006

Review of Violin Recital - Kyoko Takezawa

Violin Recital - Kyoko Takezawa

Debut recital discs seldom engender such a positive impression as this offering from the young Japanese violinist, Kyoko Takezawa. In...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1993

Review of Bach New Year's Day Cantatas

Bach New Year's Day Cantatas

Collectors will recall that Ton Koopman’s complete Bach cantata series hit the buffers in 2000, with Warner withdrawing its support...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 0/0

Review of Rachmaninov Songs, Vol. 2

Rachmaninov Songs, Vol. 2

Two figures in particular haunt the second volume of Chandos’s survey of Rachmaninov’s songs – Feodor Chaliapin and Rachmaninov himself....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1996

Review of Poulenc Sacred Choral Works

Poulenc Sacred Choral Works

The perhaps idle thought struck me that there is something faintly incongruous in a Joyful Company of Singers electing to...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1999


 

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