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(The) Kite Runner

This controversial new film, directed by Marc Forster, who gave us the touching Finding Neverland, is based on the recent...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 2/2008

Denyce Graves - Lost Days

This seems to me an unusually successful example of a crossover CD, with Denyce Graves applying the sultry mezzo of...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/2003

Debuusy: Piano works

The name of Theodore Paraskivesco is new to me. A Romanian, born in 1940, he was a pupil of Yvonne...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1988

Mazzoni Aminta, il re pastore

Antonio Mazzoni was admired in his day for his “fire and fancy” but quickly fell into oblivion after his death...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2007

Puccini Turandot

When Karajan's DG Vienna recording of Turandot appeared on CD, I immediately wondered how this much older Decca set would...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1985

Bach Orchestral Suites and Harpsichord Concerto

This agreeable programme above all celebrates the capricious musicianship of Ketil Haugsand‚ a harpsichordist of outstanding natural ability whose largely...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Paderewski Piano Sonata; Variations and Fugues

Jonathan Plowright shines a powerful light on Paderewski. Gone is the purveyor of salon trifles and charmers (his Minuet in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2007

A. Clementi Madrigale

This release spans 43 years of Clementi’s output, although 1956’s Studi, its asperities influenced but not dictated by Darmstadt serialism,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1999

Schumann; Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos

The first of these two discs celebrates the 50th anniversary of Daniel Barenboim’s début recital in Buenos Aires and is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2003

Dowland In Darkness Let Me Dwell

Only ECM, matchmakers supreme, could have pulled this one off. Here is John Dowland, no longer semper dolens, but with...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1999

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