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Schumann Piano Works

We are told that besides her concerts, this American pianist gives ''one-woman shows'' based on the lives of Clara Schumann...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1994

Rodrigo Conierto de Aranjuez

The titles of the sixteenth-century books of tablature by Cabezon and Henestrosa declare the music to be suitable for the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1999

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

It was an interesting idea to engage four of the world's top violinists each to play one of these delightful...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Bach Magnificat; Cantata No.80

Philippe Herreweghe continues his exploration of Bach's choral works with a performance of the Magnificat in its later, more usually...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1991

Janácek Choral Works

Some of Janacek's most characteristic invention is to be found in the many choruses he wrote for local choirs who...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995

Combattimenti!

The music of Monteverdi and Marazzoli is rarely heard in close proximity but the pieces chosen on this imaginative coupling...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 3/2011

Weill Symphonies

The Krakow Philharmonic under Roland Bader deliver generally efficient performances of both the Weill symphonies. However, the avoidance of merely...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 10/1991

Tippett (A) Child Of Our Time

Four years after his Dresden version of A Child of Our Time, recorded live in the Semperoper (Profil, 3/08), Sir...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2008

Schumann Liederkreis, Op 39; Pfitzner (4) Songs, Op 32

As a Lieder interpreter Holl divides opinion. There are those who consider him one of the most profound artists in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2007

Saint-Saëns/Paray Orchestral and Choral Works

Until Daniel Barenboim's successful Chicago/Chartres recording of the mid-1970s (DG (CD) 415 847-2GGA, 4/87), the most striking American accounts of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

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