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Schumann Piano Quintet; Piano Quartet
Antonio De Secondi | Michelangeli Piano Quartet
Recorded in Florence in 2000, the members of the Michelangelo Piano Quartet give stylish accounts of Schumann’s two most popular...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2003
Virtuoso Italian Vocal Music
Catherine Bott | New London Consort | Philip Pickett
In one of the most remarkable literary descriptions of early Italian virtuoso singing to have survived, an elderly Roman recalls...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 11/1988
Schubert Lieder
David Campbell | Lynda Russell | Peter Hill
For their first essay in the field of Lieder, Naxos have sensibly if unadventurously chosen to present a programme of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996
Cowell Piano Works
Chris Brown | Joseph Kubera | Sarah Cahill | Sorrel Hays
Over three days in 1997 these four pianists mounted a centenary tribute to Cowell with a series of recitals at...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/2000
Granados Goyescas, Books 1 & 2
Alicia de Larrocha | Thomas Rajna
The Goyescas are profoundly Spanish, but the influence is that of court music more than of flamenco and cante hondo...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1989
Ward: Madrigals
Anthony Rooley | Consort of Musicke
It's surely a sign that a body of relatively obscure music has come of age when a group of performers...
Reviewed in issue 3/1988
Organ Fireworks, Vol. 3
The uninitiated often puzzle at the obsession organ enthusiasts have with the instruments. A pianophile would seek out a specific...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1991
Cantico Della Terra
Micrologus | Quartetto Vocale Giovanna Marini
This is an odd and intriguing mixture. Like several other Italian musicians of recent years, both the Quartetto Vocale Giovanna...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/2000
Beethoven Piano Concertos
Eugen Jochum | Karl Böhm | Maurizio Pollini | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Pollini's Beethoven is heard as its best in this recoupling where the distinguished 1976 recording of the G major Concerto...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1984
Poulenc Sacred Choral Music
Eric Ericson | Netherlands Chamber Choir
The Netherlands Chamber Choir is one of the best, but standards are particularly high in this area and the group...
Reviewed in issue 2/1999
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