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Violin Show Pieces
A translation of the booklet notes for this release stresses the delicate-looking 23-year-old Korean's gift for lyrical playing, and it...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1993
Martha Argerich & Friends Live from Lugano 2011
Now that Martha Argerich has all but abandoned the recording studio (and the solo recital platform) for chamber projects with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2012
Brahms, arr Joachim Hungarian Dances etc
John Lenehan | Marat Bisengaliev
There was a time when Brahms’s Hungarian Dances (or at least a good half-dozen of them) were rarely absent from...
Reviewed in issue 3/1996
Homage to Clara Haskill and Dinu Lipatti
Here is a unique item for collectors, a loving and lavishly presented memento of two incomparable Romanian pianists whose tragically...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Symphonic Marches for Concert Brass
James Stobart | Locke Brass Consort
At the very opening of the Aida march one pricks up one's ears at the natural balance of the sound...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1983
Kyra Vayne (b.1916)
Anonymous Pianist(s) | (Anonymous) Orchestra | Colin Tilney | Kyra Vayne
For the second time in recent months (see comments on the Giorgini recital in last month's issue, page 143), the...
Reviewed in issue 6/1995
KEELEY Concerto for Piano and 12 Instruments. Dances with Bears
Andrew Sparling | Caroline Balding | Dominic Saunders | Lontano | Mary Dullea
Although Rob Keeley may be known among contemporary music mavens for his formidable pianistic prowess and championing of new works,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2015
David Helfgott Brilliantissimo
In a few years this will be a mere curiosity, not the abomination of marketing that it now seems. David...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 9/1997
Newdance - 18 Dances for Guitar
David Starobin’s latest guitar recital, ‘Newdance’, has all the warmth and clarity of a family enterprise. Eighteen composer-friends (including John...
Reviewed in issue 1/1999
GODOWSKY Symphonic Metamorphoses PADEREWSKI Variations and Fugue (Nelson Goerner)
Paderewski’s Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat minor have, I think, only made it on to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2019
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