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Dickinson Piano Voices and Brass
Here is a welcome anthology of music by Peter Dickinson that includes five piano works, four of them played by...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2006
Derbussy Complete Works for Solo Piano
Haakon Austbø | Joseph Tong | Waka Hasewaga
Haakon Austbø’s collection concentrates on the (usually but not always) slighter pieces that do not find their way into single-disc...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2007
Stokowski Transcriptions
James Sedares | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Hot on the heels of Matthias Bamert’s Chandos disc of Mussorgsky as arranged by Stokowski comes this Koch offering duplicating...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1996
Bach Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, Vol 1
Look at what Bach said: ‘Six sonatas for obbligato harpsichord and solo violin with a bass accompanied by a viola...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2005
Songs on Poems by Pierre de Ronsard
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble | Dominique Visse | Eric Bellocq
It has been far too easy in the past to see French chanson composers in the second half of the...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1995
Puccini La Bohème
A curious mixture of a performance. It is presumably based on a production by the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1990
Bantock: Orchestral Works
Adrian Leaper | Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice
No one can complain that Czechoslovakia and Marco Polo are failing to make a significant contribution to the recording of...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
Invitation to the Seraglio
There was I, in a review of a CD called ‘East Meets West’ (Warner Classics, 8/04), citing Mozart’s flirtation with...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2004
Works for Trumpet & Piano
Alexander Markovich | Sergei Nakarjakov
This CD provides a quite astonishing recording debut for a young Russian virtuoso, barely 15 at the time this record...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1993
Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 3
If I'd been asked to identify the composer of ''Les morts'' from its strange, exploratory opening, my first guess would...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1989
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