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L BEDFORD Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
Thirty-something British composer Luke Bedford (b1978) has a nice line in surrealistic titles. Of the five works on this disc,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2012
BARTÓK Violin Concerto No 2 LIGETI Violin Concerto
Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs these three concertos by composers born in Hungary with her trademark panache and the recorded balance gives...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2012
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
The moment immediately following the arresting horn and trumpet fanfares at the start of the Fourth Symphony reveals a big...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2012
Le boeuf sur le toit
Le boeuf sur le toit is, of course, the name of a ballet by Milhaud, which in turn was adopted...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2012
Leonard Shure in Concert at Jordan Hall
Who remembers Leonard Shure (1910-95)? Certainly his students, who often quaked under his critical savagery. I once attended a masterclass...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012
Xenakis in het Orgelpark
Now it has been scientifically proved that chaos keeps the world rational, anybody inhabiting that world, who is sensitive to...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2012
ULLMANN Complete Piano Sonatas
Among the numerous composers to have been interred at the Terezín transit camp during the early 1940s, Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944)...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2012
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 16. Wandererfantasie. Impromptus
The first instalment in Paul Lewis’s Schubert series (2/12) got the year off to a wonderful start and he ends...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2012
SAINT-SAËNS Complete Piano Works, Vol 3 – Character Pieces
Once, if briefly, known as the French Mozart, Saint-Saëns possessed a legendary facility, claiming he composed music ‘as an apple...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas Nos 1, Op 28 & No 2, Op 36
If, like me, you feel that Rachmaninov’s First Sonata doesn’t quite stack up, Nikolai Lugansky’s account may just cause you...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2012
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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