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Fauré Piano Works
Admirers of Faure's piano music who already possess Paul Crossley's survey for CRD have probably also acquired Pascal Roge's recent...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991
British Viola Works
George Vass | Orchestra Nova | Sarah-Jane Bradley
This is one of those discs impossible to dislike but difficult to get over-excited about. Sarah-Jane Bradley, former member of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2007
The Art of Segovia The HMV Recordings 1927-39
By the time I first met Segovia in 1948 his pre-eminence in the field of the classic guitar was unquestioned...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1989
Schmitt Salammbo, Orchestral Suites
French Army Chorus | Ile de France National Orchestra | Jacques Mercier
When the producer and director of the 1925 silent film of Flaubert's Salammbo asked Florent Schmitt to provide a two-hour...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1994
Respighi Chamber Works
An agreeable collection‚ and further proof that Respighi was writing fine music long before Fontane di Roma arrived in 1916:...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Machaut Messe de Notre Dame
Ensemble Organum | Jeremy Summerly | Marcel Pérès | Oxford Camerata
I seem to be reviewing Mass recordings in pairs at the moment. This particular work needs no introduction, however. Machaut’s...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/1997
Szymanowski Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Concert Overture, Op 12
Kaja Danczowska | Kazimierz Kord | Warsaw National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Why do we hear so little of Kaja Danczowska? Her spellbinding accounts of these concertos are the equal of any...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1998
Norgard Fugitive Summer
Juha Kangas | Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
You could probably gauge the extent of Per Norgard’s compositional voice from this disc alone. From the bracing Nordic neo-classicism...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1999
Barbara Bonney - When I Dream
Antonio Pappano | Barbara Bonney
It’s odd that Dichterliebe seems to be an exception to the apparent rule that women may sing ‘men’s songs’ (Winterreise‚...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Fux & Haydn Keyboard Works
Assorted keyboard works by Haydn are here surprisingly juxtaposed with music by J. J. Fux (1660-1741), whose famed textbook Gradus...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1999
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