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Bliss Piano Concerto; Concerto for Two Pianos; Piano Sonata

In recent times Bliss’s swaggering Piano Concerto (written in 1938-39 for Solomon) has found a champion in Peter Donohoe, and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2004

Leclair Flute Sonatas

Jean-Marie Leclair, 300 years old this year, is best known as one of the great French violinists of the eighteenth...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1997

Albinoni Concertos

Collegium Musicum 90 and Chandos continue on the path they took a couple of years ago (5/95) with string and...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1997

Ravel - Orchestrations

This is an excellent, revealing compilation of Ravel’s orchestrations of other composers’ works. With his own music he regularly worked...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2006

Debussy (La) Mer; Debussy, orch Matthews Preludes

Mark Elder has achieved an astonishing transformation at the Hallé, and the extreme sophistication of the orchestra’s playing can match...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2007

Barroco Espagnol, Vol 3: Quando meure el sol

The third CD in Al Ayre Espanol’s “Barroco Espanol” series for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi is without doubt the best yet:...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 7/1997

An American in Prague

This is a real find—a live Copland concert recorded by Czech Radio, with the tapes kept and thus able to...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1993

Echoes of Nightingales

“At best, encore-time turns a recital into a party,” comments the late John Steane in his evocative booklet-note. As in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2011

Szymanowski/Górecki/Baird Orchestral Works

It is something of a mystery that Szymanowski’s two fine violin concertos have not been integrated into the concerto repertoire...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/1996

Vivaldi Sacred Music, Vol. 3

Soloists, choirs and instruments join forces for this third volume of Vivaldi’s sacred music performed by Robert King and what,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1997

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