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Busoni (6) Sonatinas; Indian Diary; Toccata

Few composers have gone their way with a more resolute indifference to popular appeal than Busoni. ‘A kind of musical...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Weill - Charming Weill: Dance Band Arrangements

The American numbers here remind me of Michael Bennett’s 1978 musical Ballroom, set in a seedy Bronx dance hall. What...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/2001

Haydn Flute Trios

“Nothing very special... a simple bagatelle to amuse you in moments of extreme boredom”, was Haydn’s own offhand description of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/1996

Prokofiev/Stravinsky Violin Concertos

So what’s new? Perlman has recorded all of these works at least once before, and these very recordings of the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1997

Brahms String Quartets

Whereas the C minor and B flat major Quartets were recorded at sessions in a Swiss church, the A minor...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1994

Blavet Flute Sonatas

The music of Michel Blavet, a younger contemporary of Leclair and Rameau, has received scant attention by recording companies, so...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1986

Oh Merry Melancholy

The German lutenist Joachim Held has since 1996 been engaged in recording a survey of Renaissance and Baroque solo repertoire....

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 13/2010

Brahms Piano Works

Some 40 years separate the intimately personal miniatures opening this disc from the F sharp minor Sonata with which Ax...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1996

MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross; Cantos Sagrados

One of the first successes on RCA's Catalyst label was James MacMillan's percussion concerto for Evelyn Glennie, Veni, veni Emmanuel...

Reviewed in issue 5/1995

Scelsi Chamber Works

Like such modern masters as Tippett, Carter and Messiaen, all born in the early years of this century, Giacinto Scelsi...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1990

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