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Liszt Piano Works

Here is a demanding Liszt recital indeed, ranging through the B minor Sonata – his most Himalayan challenge – to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1996

Moscheles Complete Concert Studies (The)

Here is a fine, enterprising recital to delight and above all surprise those accustomed to Harold Schonberg’s image of Moscheles...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2004

Organ Fireworks, Vol 12

As with previous volumes in Hyperion's “Organ Fireworks” series, the programme covers a wide range of moods and styles, from...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 5/2008

Schoeck Cello Concerto; Sommernacht

The Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck's dates are 1886—1957, so this record can be taken as slightly anticipating the centenary of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

Like Maazel's other Telarc recordings made in Cleveland, this brings a brilliant performance and brilliant recorded sound, one which interpretatively...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1985

Mozart Requiem

If you're looking for a big-hearted, quasi-nineteenth-century view of this work, you may warm to Bernstein's 'old-fashioned' reading. As one...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1989

Haydn Orchestral Works

If you have a lurking feeling that conductors are often redundant or even, as the violinist Carl Flesch once averred,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1993

En doulz chastel de Pavie - Chansons à la cour des Visconti vers 1400

“Jamais deux sans trois” had I ventured when Crawford Young’s second volume of late fourteenth-century secular music appeared with Arcana...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1998

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

In the context of recordings Pelleas has nearly always been a fortunate opera, so that competition has remained keen, with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1997

Saygun Viola Concerto; Elgar In the South

The Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun, now aged 82, studied in Paris with d'Indy in the late 1920s and later...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

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