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Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 3
One of my sharpest musical regrets is never having heard Rachmaninov in concert, a point driven home with sadistic aplomb...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1997
Gieseking plays Mozart
An amazing discovery was made in the Royal College of Art in Torquay (I thought it had moved to Ilfracombe?)...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2000
Biber/Muffat Sonatas
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Consort
This is a well-chosen programme of sonatas by Biber and Muffat. Biber is represented by four pieces from his 1676...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1994
Gluck Alceste
Alceste was the second of Gluck’s “reform” operas for Vienna, composed in 1767 and published with a preface in which...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2008
Rossini Soirées musicales
Bruce Ford | Miah Persson | Roger Vignoles | Stella Doufexis
This is a classic case of “spoiling the ship for a ha’porth of tar”, as well as further evidence of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2008
Jones, R Sets of Lessons for the Harpsichord
Last year, when reviewing Julian Perkins’s disc of harpsichord sonatas by James Nares (Avie, 8/09), I quoted the claim of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2010
Purcell Tis natures Voice
Konrad Junghänel | René Jacobs | Wieland Kuijken
Rene Jacobs has some attractive high notes and an unusually wide range, being able to reach down to notes on...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words
Few pieces conjure up more immediately and vividly the comfortable middle-class world of the 1840s than Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016
Bach (The) Art of Fugue
This is Bach-playing to listen to every day, fresh, spry and well modulated. If spirituality is to be found in...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 3/2008
Giuseppe Di Stefano Opera Arias and Songs
Very moving it is to hear this voice again in its absolute prime. Consulting the original review (3/81) of the...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
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