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BUSONI Doktor Faust

The 1920s and ’30s were not kind to composers – all of Berg, Busoni, Elgar and Puccini were struck down...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013

BRITTEN Peter Grimes

All who were present at the performances of Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh beach this summer agree it was an unforgettable...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2013

BIZET Le Docteur Miracle

Le Docteur Miracle, Bizet’s second opera, came about as the result of a competition. Six composers from a list of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2013

Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum Vol 24

For their newest venture, Schloss vor Husum dig ever deeper into the byways of piano literature. And if not everything...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2013

Shura Charkassky: Live in Concert, 1971

The tape of this 1971 recital comes from Shura Cherkassky’s own private collection housed at the British Library, but no...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 arr. 4 hands

The likelihood is that Bruno Walter designed his transcriptions of Mahler’s First and Second Symphonies for public performance. Dynamics, phrasings...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013

Michael Hersch: The Sudden Pianist

‘The Sudden Pianist’ desperately wants you to believe in the dream that 40-something pianist/composer Michael Hersch is, as the cover...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Cameos. Valse Suite 'Three-Fours'

Very little of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s piano music has been recorded. If the four works here have previously made it complete...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013

BUSONI Late Piano Music

Few composers have so determinedly avoided popularity as Busoni. An idealist, he dismissed one musical luminary after another. Schumann and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2013

BEETHOVEN The Late Piano Sonatas

To choose the last three Beethoven sonatas as your debut recording might be seen as headstrong, but the last five?...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2013

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