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Medtner Piano Concertos, etc
A short time ago the appearance of three records of Medtner piano concertos within a few weeks (one with the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1992
D. Moore Carry Nation
Carry Nation is the last of Douglas Moore's seven operas and it was commissioned for the centenary of the University...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1990
Mozart Piano Sonatas
The earlier of these two works is the C major Sonata completed in Mannheim in November 1777 for the talented...
Reviewed in issue 5/1988
Persichetti: Orchestral Works
Charles Dutoit | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Robert Taub
Persichetti was a prodigiously fluent composer, performer, writer and teacher based all his life in Philadelphia, although he had considerable...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1991
Mompou Piano Works, Volume 3
Volume 3 of Naxos’s ongoing cycle offers further confirmation of Mompou’s subtle and glowing intimacy of style, his rare economy...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: /2000
Mussorgsky (arr Stokowski) Orchestral Works
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Matthias Bamert
In his excellent biography of Stokowski (Dodd and Mead: 1982) Oliver Daniel talks in detail of doubts expressed by various...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1996
Chamber music from Theresienstadt 1941-45
Hawthorne Quartet | Virginia Eskin
This CD is a product of the Terezin Chamber Music Foundation, a non-profit making organization devoted to the revival of...
Reviewed in issue 12/1991
Verdi Messa da Requiem
Writing recently in The Sunday Times, Davis Cairns aptly described this interpretation as ‘wonderfully stirring’. Previously available in execrable sound,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2005
Liszt Études d'exécution transcendante
Freddy Kempf’s longawaited recording of Liszt’s Etudes d’exécution transcendante reinforces the impression he has made with this work in concert....
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Blow/Locke/Purcell Organ Works
While this is the fourth in a series demonstrating the remarkable O'Neill collection of organs, both ancient and modern, housed...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/1994
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