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BEETHOVEN The Symphonies

Listen to the Scherzos and Minuets of the first four symphonies. They fairly spring out of the blocks with a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2012

REIZENSTEIN Piano Concerto No 2 BATE Piano Concerto No 2. Sinfonietta No 1

This is another foray into totally unexplored territory where Lewis Foreman and Dutton have lifted the dust off forgotten scores...

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BACH Concertos for Recorder

It is normal for enterprising musicians to find ways to adapt Bach’s compositions to fit their instruments, whether they play...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2012

Moriz Rosenthal Complete Recordings

There are 97 titles on these five CDs lasting just over six hours, a timing that includes two live broadcasts...

Reviewed in issue 04/2012

WEISS Lute Music

The two substantial lute sonatas by Silvius Leopold Weiss on this recording, each of which comprises for the most part...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue:

RAMEAU Pieces for Keyboard

Rameau’s harpsichord pieces can work wonderfully well on the modern concert grand, as Marcelle Meyer proved to magical effect, not...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue:

MOZART Keyboard Music Vol 3

As with its two predecessors, the third volume of Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Mozart keyboard music cycle attests to the young fortepianist’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2012

LISZT Complete Organ Works

The booklet is infuriating. The 12-page German/English text has an (admittedly interesting) essay on ‘Franz Liszt and the Organ Landscape...

Reviewed in issue 04/2012

KOECHLIN Les heures persanes, Op 65

Charles Koechlin’s name has a prominent place in the development of French music but his music has so far eluded...

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GRANADOS Goyescas

Writing of Goya, Granados recalled his ‘models, quarrels, his loves and flatteries, those pink and white cheeks against lace and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2012

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