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Mozart Complete Piano Sonatas

Daniel-Ben Pienaar couldn’t have begun better, not by playing but by saying, “It is inescapable that a performance practice for...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2011

Zandonai Francesca da Rimini

This is just the sort of work for which a DVD issue is invaluable. One could travel the world and...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 9/2009

Piano Rarities Vol 1

There are those pianists who restrict themselves to the compositions of a small number of composers and make very good...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2009

Baker Songs of Courtship

I found it difficult to credit that John Bevan Baker’s Songs of Courtship, completed in 1988 and receiving their first...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 11/2006

Purcell Dido and Aeneas

Here is England’s first great opera presented with a truly cohesive sense of theatrical purpose, one which unusually allows the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2009

Rare Piano Encores

Lollipops for piano—there is hardly a tune in these 15 that you won't know, even if one or two make...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Brass Quintets

No one could write for a brass quintet more wittily than Sir Malcolm Arnold and his tail-chasing opening theme, with...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1997

Choral Works

It would be a pleasure to recommend this, for the programme and performances are fine. Unfortunately, I find the recorded...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Sir Roger Norrington conducts Mozart

‘Norrington’s interpretations are characterised by their freshness, clarity and liveliness,’ boasts the cover of this DVD. And so it proves....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2006

Vaughan Williams/Ravel Chamber Works

This is, I feel, the most outstanding release to date from the Britten Quartet, and can only help to consolidate...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1992

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