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Adams, J/Riley, T Piano Music

The multifarious pulsings of Adams’s Phrygian Gates (all 26 minutes of it) are more palatable here than on some rival...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Haydn Symphonies & Divertimenti

Sinfonia Classica, five years old and based in England’s West Country, have struck lucky with director Gernot Süssmuth, long-experienced in...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2008

Haydn - (The) Art of Variation

“Haydn and the Art of Variation” is Carole Cerasi’s title for her latest release; each of its four sonatas contains...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2010

Wieniawski Piano Works, Vol 1

The only work of Józef Wieniawski (1837-1912) I’d heard before these was his Piano Concerto issued on an early (1987)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2009

Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2; La Valse; Bizet Symphony In C

This is live music-making at its finest. The programme opens with Daphnis et Chloe, and Pretre, who has this music...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

In a confrontational note accompanying these discs, Pearl's producer Allan Evans claims that previous attempts to present Schnabel's Beethoven on...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1994

Rossini Overtures

Readers of Digby Anderson's occasional Spectator column ''Imperative Cooking'' will know that you can buy a wonderful variety of fresh...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1994

Schumann Complete Piano Works Vol 2

Finghin Collins's first volume in Claves's complete cycle of Schumann's piano music (A/06) may be a hard act to follow...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2007

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Leon Fleisher

Anyone inspecting the ranks of young American pianists back in the early 1960s will have encountered a wide array of...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Massenet Manon

''Well worth waiting for'' was LS's verdict on the original LP issue, and as much can be said again now...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

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