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Great Pianists on the Bell Telephone Hour (1959-1967)
‘Great Pianists on The Bell Telephone Hour’ provides a fascinating, compulsively watchable compilation of changing styles and personalities. Dating mostly...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2003
Glass Dances & Sonata
Steffen Schleiermacher has made some truly splendid recordings of 20th-century American piano music, notably his complete Cage, and now he’s...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2007
Masterpieces in Miniature
The sub-title of this recital disc is ''Favourite Piano Encores'', and one has to ask whether one wants to listen...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 12/1988
The Best of Sir Henry J.Wood
I can only recall a handful of Wood reissues during the whole of the LP era, and even when historic...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
PETRASSI Flute Concerto. Piano Concerto. Symphonic Suite
Bruno Canino | Francesco La Vecchia | Mario Ancillotti | Rome Symphony Orchestra
‘I consider the score a complete failure.’ Thus Goffredo Petrassi on his sole Piano Concerto, begun in 1936 and premiered...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2014
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Martha Argerich
This is the first instalment of two devoted to Martha Argerich in Philips’s Great Pianists series and the material here...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/1998
Ancient Airs and Dances
Christel Thielmann | John Holloway | Nigel North | Paul O'Dette | Rogers Covey-Crump
Time was when the majority of records of late medieval and renaissance music were made up of social music and...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 4/1988
Järnefelt Serenade; Symphonic Fantasy
Jaakko Kuusisto | Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Although he lived until 1958, Armas Järnefelt’s compositions cluster mostly in the two decades either side of 1900. The pretty...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2011
Russian Images
Alexander Blok | Vassily Savenko
To listen to this carefully chosen recital is to be reminded how consistent the tradition of the lyrical song, or...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1999
R. Strauss Symphonic music from operas
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Zubin Mehta
This collection arrived for review not long after I'd warmly praised Jeffrey Tate's rather more generous survey of Strauss's concert...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1993
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