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Chopin: Piano works

Though no less than 16 different versions of the Funeral March Sonata are currently on sale, this is the first...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1985

Szymanowski Works for Violin and Piano

The contrast with Lydia Mordkovitch, who offers a similar programme for Chandos, is intense. In big, impassioned climaxes, where one...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1992

Haydn: String Quartets

Given the daunting structure of the Seven Last Words—eight substantial slow movements plus a tiny concluding presto—you wouldn't expect it...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1991

Satie Piano Works

Tender, solemn, droll, silly and occasionally plain boring, Satie’s piano music has certainly proved its appeal for performers and record...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1996

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 3 / Gilels / Berglund

This is the seventh volume from VAI of live performances of the great Russian pianist. It is sourced from two...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2009

Grieg & Schumann: Piano Concertos

These are most attractive performances. Pascal Devoyon is a thoughtful artist who unfailingly conveys the essential poetry of the music,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

Prokofiev Chout

While much of Europe was convulsed by the Great War, Prokofiev was composing a ballet to a grotesquely comic folk-tale...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2004

Cyril Scott Orchestral Works

If, like me, you have known Cyril Scott primarily as the composer of Water Wagtail, you will probably be unprepared...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/1994

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Giulini's account of the Seventh Symphony is not, by and large, so impressive as his momentous account of the Eighth...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1987

Verdi Requiem

Naxos have done it again. I have little hesitation in preferring this version among modern, large-scale performances. Morandi brings to...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

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