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PIAZZOLLA María de Buenos Aires
Juanjo Lopez Vidal | Mr McFall's Chamber | Nicholas Mulroy | Valentina Montoya | Victor Villena
‘I play with violence’, Astor Piazzolla once said. ‘My bandoneón must sing and scream. Sometimes I beat the bandoneón up.’...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2018
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas 1 & 2
Rachmaninov's Preludes and his Etudes-Tableaux are a well known and established part of the pianist's repertory, but his two sonatas...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 6/1989
Arnold David Copperfield; The Roots of Heaven
Moscow Symphony Orchestra | William T. Stromberg
Filmed in Chad under the most inhospitable conditions imaginable, John Huston’s big-screen adaptation of The Roots of Heaven (a tale...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
UK DK: Contemporary Recorder
Mahan Esfahani | Michala Petri
This is not the first time Michala Petri has juxtaposed recorder works from Britain and her home country, Denmark. A...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015
Scriabin Complete Piano Works, Volume 4
After a long delay, Gordon Fergus-Thompson continues his Scriabin series for ASV with Volume 4, the complete Mazurkas. The Mazurka...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2000
The Musical Landscape
Clio Gould | Royal Academy Soloists
Launched in irrepressible style by Gordon Jacob's sprightly Overture, this beautifully engineered concert presents some exceptionally responsive music-making from the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2000
Mahler Symphony No 4
Christiane Oelze | Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra | Markus Stenz
There’s something disconcertingly old-fashioned about this performance, like being told that hipsters are back in, only to find that, actually,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 13/2010
Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux
I have admired Gordon Fergus-Thompson's playing since I first heard him in a broadcast some six years ago. Then he...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1992
Scriabin Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5
Here‚ at last‚ is the fifth disc of Gordon Fergus Thompson’s Scriabin survey‚ which has been inching along for years‚...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
New Perspectives on Autumn
Three Winchester-based artists bind together this imaginative and beautifully conceived album: poet Wendy Cope reads her marvellously wry and observant...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1998
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