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Ligeti Piano Etudes, Bks 1 and 2

The pre-eminent classical piano music to have emerged over the last half century, Ligeti’s Etudes have received numerous recordings –...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 4/2003

Charpentier La descente d'Orphée aux Enfers

Les Arts Florissants have had Charpentier’s chamber opera La descente d’Orphee aux enfers in their repertoire for at least a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1996

Eileen Joyce - The Parlophone Recordings

After a career that triumphed over unpromising circumstances, Eileen Joyce’s decision to retire from the concert platform while still in...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Coles Music from Behind the Lines

Shot by a sniper on the Somme in April 1918 aged 29‚ Cecil Coles was born in Kirkcudbright in 1888...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Mozart Symphonies

It is not so very long ago that the idea of playing Mozart on period instruments was regarded as amiably...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1992

Stravinsky The Rake's Progress

I have not heard the three-disc LP version of which AW writes above but the greater transparency and immediacy of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1985

Julian Bream Plays Spanish Guitar Music

‘Julian Bream is probably the most universal guitarist of the 20th century.’ I quote from the inlay booklet accompanying the...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Verdi Simon Boccanegra

Here is the second recording within six months of Plácido Domingo in the title-role of Simon Boccanegra, his first onstage...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2011

Schubert Sonatas for Violin & Piano

There’s much to enjoy here. The blend of the two instruments is excellent, and the Salvatore Lagrassa fortepiano, c1815, has...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2007

Conchita Supervia Rossini & Bizet Arias

In this three-way comparison of transfers the EMI improves on the Preiser to just about the same extent as the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

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