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Grainger Solo Piano Works, Vol 3

Simultaneously with a volume devoted to Father José Antonio Donostia in its Basque Music Series (7/04), Claves has issued this...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2004

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

This disc represents another issue in Alicia de Larrocha's series of the Mozart piano sonatas, and offers some pleasing listening....

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1992

Torelli (Brandenburg) Concertos, Op 6

Giuseppe Torelli (1658- 1709) spent much of his career working in the orchestra at Bologna’s Basilica of San Petronio, where...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2009

Schumann Liederkreis, Op 39. Fantasiestücke, Op 12

Short sleeve-notes written by both soloists describe their shared affinity with Schumann's music. The song cycle comes first on the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Shostakovich Symphony No 11

For sound enthusiasts on a budget, Oleg Caetani’s continuing Shostakovich cycle is worth considering. While his Milan orchestra cannot hope...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2005

Haydn Die Schöpfung

Forget, for a moment, the period piping wood-doves, thunderbolts rattling authentically from short sticks, the presence or absence of double-bass...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1991

Requiem Aeternam

Both Martin’s Mass and Howells’ Requiem were regarded by their composers as being too deeply personal utterances to be allowed...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2004

Gounod Mors et Vita

Following the huge popular success of his oratorio La Redemption, given at Birmingham in 1882, Gounod was commissioned by his...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1993

Mark Reizen (1895-1992) - II

Preiser's Mark Reizen, Vol. 1 (12/92) confined itself to Russian opera, and was greeted in these columns as containing ''glorious...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Bo Skovhus The Heart of the Poet

Skovhus sings boldly, on a large canvas, in these songs by the Schumanns. He is at his most convincing in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1996

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