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George Benjamin Three Inventions etc
Fretwork | George Benjamin | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Sinfonietta | Susan Bickley
Having originally issued George Benjamin’s Sudden Time as a CD single (11/94), Nimbus now bring it back in the context...
Reviewed in issue 4/1997
Bartók & Kodály Concerti for Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
I am surprised that we haven't seen more of this coupling: historically speaking, it's a natural (both works commissioned by...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1991
Schnittke Piano Trio; Piano Quintet
Barbican Piano Trio | James Boyd | Jan Peter Schmolck
These two works are among Schnittke’s finest compositions, and as a coupling they are a very collectable proposition. If precise...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2005
Shostakovich Piano Sonatas
Unless you want the Preludes and Fugues in their entirety, this disc gives you all the major Shostakovich piano works....
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/1999
F. Couperin 3 Leçons de ténèbres
(Il) Seminario Musicale Ensemble | Gérard Lesne
In his three Lecons de tenebres, printed between 1713 and 1717, Couperin reached the highest level of expressive intensity. During...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1994
Couperin; Lalande Leçons de Ténèbres
Agnès Mellon | Charles Medlam | Emma Kirkby | Terence Charlston
If this disc had come out 20 years ago there would have been no doubt what it represented: two of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2008
Myaskovsky; Weinberg Violin Concertos
Dmitry Yablonsky | Ilya Grubert | Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
For many years these concertos were closely identified with their dedicatees, the Myaskovsky with David Oistrakh, the Weinberg (or Vainberg)...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2004
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Géza Anda
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Ferenc Fricsay | Géza Anda | Salzburg Camerata Academica
Philips’s tribute to a great artist incomparable in Bartok and no less so in Schumann is marred by a selection...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1999
Cabaret Songs Michael Finstein
Armen Guzelimian | Michael Feinstein
Having bought a copy of this collection in the USA last summer, I have already had several months' enjoyment from...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/1990
J. C. Bach Symphonies, Op 9
Anthony Halstead | Hanover Band
The most recent CD in the J. C. Bach series from the Hanover Band offers the Op. 9 Symphonies published...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1998
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