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Andreae Piano Trio

With enterprising record companies digging out more and more fringe repertoire, every so often one discovers a first rate composer...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2007

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

As one who endorses The Good CD Guide's recommendation of Maurizio Pollini's Beethoven Op. 110 of the mid-1970s, I was...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1994

Brahms; Strauss, R; Thuille Cello Sonatas

Most collectors approaching this CD will be drawn by the works of Brahms and Strauss but the bonus, a sonata...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2011

Brahms Piano Pieces

Helene Grimaud is a young pianist of considerable warmth and artistry, and here gives us Brahms’s final piano compositions. Composed...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1996

The Art of the Coloratura

In virtuosity, precision, freshness of tone and extensiveness of vocal range, the record clearly excels. Many of the singer's accomplishments...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Monteverdi L'Incoronazione di Poppea

Poppea has a strange history of recordings, ranging from the luscious and enticing arrangement of Raymond Leppard (available on a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/1996

Rubinstein - The Liszt Album

Liszt is not a composer one instantly associates with Rubinstein (Harvey Sachs in his quite excellent biography devotes but a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2011

Berlioz Romeo and Juliet

Though there are currently six recordings of Berlioz’s highly demanding dramatic symphony in the catalogue, ranging from Toscanini’s fairly eccentric...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1996

Bach Clavier-Übung

A century ago, very few music lovers had the opportunity of hearing Wagner in the opera house, and piano transcriptions...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2000

Bach; Pergolesi; Vivaldi Stabat Mater

There are at least half a dozen recordings of Vivaldi’s Stabat mater that I wouldn’t want to be without but...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2009

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