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Szymanowski Mazurkas
I have been pleading for a complete recording of Szymanowski’s Mazurkas for some time, and here come two at once,...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1997
Bach (The) Well-Tempered Klavier
Daniel-Ben Pienaar | Michael Levinas | Till Fellner
Three pianists, three sets of ideas about Das Wohltemperierte Klavier; and though echoes of their predecessors from Edwin Fischer to...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2004
Rossini Cantatas, Volume 2
The wretched Hanssler recording of Rossini’s splendid Neapolitan wedding cantata Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo was made in...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
Moreno Torroba Luisa Fernanda
A first thought might be that the existence of a performance conducted by the composer (a highly accomplished practical musician)...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1996
Strauss (Ein) Heldenleben; (Die) Frau ohne Schatten - Symphonic Fantasy
Christian Thielemann | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It is difficult to think of a performing musician who divides critical opinion more completely than Christian Thielemann. There may...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2003
Bach Funeral Cantatas
The first cantata here, No 106, the so-called ‘Actus Tragicus’, was written during Bach’s short tenure in Muhlhausen in 1707-08,...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2000
Beethoven; Bridge; Mozart Piano Trios
Benjamin Britten | Maurice Gendron | Yehudi Menuhin
Britten playing Beethoven doesn’t sound like the most natural match, and indeed the admirable clarity and brightness of his performance...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2004
The Organs of Willem Hermans in Pistoai and Collescipoli
Organists and harpsichordists are fortunate in having a vast heritage of music from the 17th century - and earlier -...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 5/2000
Dvorák String Quartet; Terzetto
Francesco Petracchi | Margaret Batjer | Peter Wiley | Salvatore Accardo | Toby Hoffman
On the whole, a much more appealing disc than the Piano Quintet/Romantic Pieces coupling reviewed in July. Neither the String...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1989
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 and 2
Okko Kamu | Stockholm Sinfonietta
There is a fierceness and keenness of articulation about these Swedish performances of Beethoven’s First and Second Symphonies that could...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1996
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