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Review of Beethoven Quintet for Piano & wind Instrument; Hindemith Sonata for Horn & Piano

Beethoven Quintet for Piano & wind Instrument; Hindemith Sonata for Horn & Piano

The mono recordings here are variable. The Beethoven Piano and Wind Quintet is distant and subfusc, and not ideally balanced,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2005

Review of English 18th-Century Keyboard Concertos

English 18th-Century Keyboard Concertos

You will notice rather a lot of 'recons.' or 'arr.' in the heading. That is because in eighteenth-century England, when...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1994

Review of Debussy (12) Études

Debussy (12) Études

Pascal Rogé begins Debussy’s First Etude promisingly. He shapes the left-hand “five-finger exercise” in an appropriately plodding manner and plays...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2010

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Review of Opera Scenes-Renée Fleming

Opera Scenes-Renée Fleming

Here’s a singer who has reached complete maturity as a singer and artist, revelling in her vocal and interpretative powers....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997

Review of Leighton Complete Cello Chamber Works

Leighton Complete Cello Chamber Works

The programme spans more than three decades, the earliest item being the Elegy, Op 5, from 1949. It’s a seven-minute...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2011

Review of Liszt Piano Works

Liszt Piano Works

Leonid Kuzmin is a 29-year-old Russian pianist whose hair-raising facility remains sadly uncomplemented by musical insight or discipline. Coyly introduced...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1994

Review of Brahms Symphonies Nos. 1-3 & Overtures

Brahms Symphonies Nos. 1-3 & Overtures

Some years ago Kurt Masur recorded all four Brahms symphonies with the Leipzig Gewandhaus (Philips, 9/79 – nla), and I...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Review of Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Alfred Cortot

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Alfred Cortot

Was there ever a more liberated or volatile pianist than Alfred Cortot? A true virtuoso in Liszt’s sense (‘one called...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1999

Review of British Light Music Miniatures

British Light Music Miniatures

It was an excellent idea for Marco Polo to include in their British Light Music series a CD of items...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1995

Review of Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2

Volume 2 of Russell Sherman’s cycle barks but never quite bites. Largely relying on bluster and bravado, his often provocative...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 4/1998


 

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