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James Rhodes - Bullets and Lullabies
James Rhodes’s first release since signing with Warner Classics and Jazz encompasses two distinct and relatively brief recitals made up...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2011
The Bel Canto Bassoon
Julius Drake | Kim Walker | Laurence Perkins | Michael Hancock
The major common factor to the two explorations of bassoon repertory is the Saint-Saens Sonata with piano, a most agreeable...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
The Berlin Recordings
This 10-disc box is Piano Classics’ most ambitious project to date, a tribute to a pianist who for many years...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012
Rostropovich - Master Cellist
Of the two major celebratory collections which have appeared simultaneously to celebrate the great Russian musician and humanitarian’s 75th birthday‚...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/2002
Piano Etudes Recital
Ian Fountain | Navah Perlman | Roustem Saitkoulov
Here are three very different pianists, presented with the benefit of excellent engineering, attractive pricing and widespread distribution, and part...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
Nikolaj Znaider - Bravo!
Daniel Gortler | Nikolaj Znaider
Violin buffs with good memories or sizeable record collections will already know many of these pieces from old 78s. Nikolaj...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2003
Dawn Upshaw Recital
Splendid. Couldn’t be better. Except just possibly there might be something to be said for reversing the playing-order. Disc 3,...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
Solo - Yo-Yo Ma
This delightful release finds Stephen Hough revisiting Virgin territory. A bad pun, yes, but not an oxymoron! Hough recorded two...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/1999
For the Fallen. Lest We Forget
Charles Harrison | Chichester Cathedral Choir | Matthew Altham | Pegasus | Timothy Ravalde
Marking the centenary of the November 1918 Armistice, these two discs from Signum present two very different interpretations of choral...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2018
Echoes of Time
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Hélène Grimaud | Lisa Batiashvili
The new-found popularity of Shostakovich’s greatest concerto has engendered a flood of state-of-the-art recordings but few if any are finer...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2011
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