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Bach Preludes and Fugues

That this is going to be a disc of no-nonsense, businesslike Bach is clear from the very outset. Simon Preston...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1998

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Mikhail Pletnev

Anyone who, like me, bought Pletnev’s first recording issued in the West, will surely have the March from The Nutcracker...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

On Wings of Song

This is a welcome encore to the same performers' well-received ''Sweet Power Of Song'' (CDC7 49930-2, 11/90). Once again Graham...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1992

Handel/Brahms/Reger Piano Works

Here, together with a Schumann recital (see page 126) are the first fruits of Andras Schiff's new Teldec contract; a...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1995

Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah

The Tallis Scholars' third recording of music by Tallis is a worthy successor to their two earlier selections, the motets...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 5/1992

Dussek Piano Sonatas

Haydn described the Bohemian composer-virtuoso Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) as “one of the most upright, moral, and, in music, eminent...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2006

Adams On the Transmigration of Souls

When I first heard this 25-minute Pulitzer Prize- winning musical response to 9/11 at the Proms last year, I was...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2004

Respighi Lucrezia

Lucrezia is Respighi’s last dramatic work and of those that I have heard by far the weakest. Even so, it...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1996

Chopin Sonata No 3

Ivo Kahánek dedicates his recital to his professor, Ivan Klánsk≥, and in an intriguing accompanying interview he claims that he...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2011

Holst The Planets. St Pauls' Suite

As you would expect from this particular partnership, here's a Planets full of impressive things. Right from the outset, you...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1994

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