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Cage (The) Fives

Cage idolised Satie and composed two reworkings of his music for solo violin – Cheap Imitation, based on Socrate, and...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2003

Debussy Piano Works

Most of Cecile Ousset's recordings so far have been of music on the largest scale: Liszt, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev. She...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1986

Beethoven Cello Sonatas

Cellist Li-Wei Qin, born in Shanghai and educated in Australia and the UK, offers a highly accomplished Beethoven sonata cycle...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2011

Wagner (Das) Rheingold

We could use a new Ring on DVD. The versions by Levine and Boulez are ageing and variously unsatisfactory, while...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 4/2004

Renata Scotto sings arias and duets

One thinks one knows: one thinks one remembers. I thought, for instance, that I'd remembered the NAbucco recording and would...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Rossini Moïse et Pharaon

Of all the compositional initiatives undertaken by Rossini during his first Paris residency (1824-29) - the glorious piece d'occasion, Il...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2000

Chant Grégorien pour le Temps Pascal

Don't be misled by the somewhat restrictive title! Half the music on this disc comes from Lent and Holy Week:...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 11/1987

Liszt Années de pèlerinage II

Undoubtedly, the best-known works from the deuxieme annee are the three Petrarch Sonnets and the Dante Sonata. Liszt stayed in...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1994

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

Here’s a true and desirable bargain. This, the first digitally recorded cycle to appear on CD, now 13 years ago,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1997

Mahler Symphony No 9

Tennstedt's big, looming account of Mahler's Ninth Symphony appeared before either of the two Karajan versions and must be accounted...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1985

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