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Tishchenko String Quartets Volume 1
Ever since Olympia’s sensational CD of Tish-chenko’s Second Violin Concerto (12/88) I have been searching for other works by Shostakovich’s...
Reviewed in issue 7/1996
Falla Piano Works
So far we have heard Heisser only in Dvorak's piano trios (Erato/WEA) and as a duo partner to instrumentalists: for...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1990
Mozart Concertante Works
Much interest has been shown in the history of K297b and it is re-focused here by this 'reconstruction' described in...
Reviewed in issue 11/1984
English Virginal Music of the 17th Century
This issue is a reminder that the name of Christopher Kite, is very familiar in the concert hall, although hardly...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1983
Smörgasbord
Bengt Forsberg | Mats Lidström
Plenty to enjoy here‚ 10 minutes more in fact than the booklet and CD casing would lead you to expect...
Reviewed in issue 12/2001
Liszt Piano Sonata
Mathieu Papadiamandis displays all the fluency, intelligence and taste one might expect from a former top prize- winner at the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2001
MacMillan Tenebrae
James MacMillan’s Strathclyde Motets are aimed at “good church choirs or good amateur choirs”, and the seven recorded here hit...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2008
Nørgård Gilgamesh
If the archaeologists are correct, it was in the city of Uruk five millennia ago that men first led a...
Reviewed in issue 1/1993
Jim Parker Clarinet Concerto; Poems by Betjeman and Wilde; Music by Gershwinand Bud Powell
Apollo Chamber Orchestra | Cicely Herbert | David Chernaik | Gerard Benson | Ian Herbert
Parker’s concerto, full of English whimsy and night-scented nostalgia, blends comfortably with his pastel-coloured, bucolically tinged Betjeman settings, both enlivened...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 12/1998
Shostakovich Symphony 14; King Lear
Each of these new recordings starts with an irritating disadvantage: Turovsky's has no fill-up, and Rozhdestvensky's does not provide the...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1988
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