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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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