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What Then is Love?

Elizabethan songs, enterprisingly selected, thoughtfully programmed and skilfully varied in presentation, should be certain (one would think) to provide an...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Hindemith; Toch; Weill Cello Sonatas

Weill’s Cello Sonata (1920) is an early work, so one will look largely in vain for the easy melodism of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2003

Fiorentino Edition III - Scriabin & Rachmaninov

‘All that glitters is not gold’ – however, in the case of Sergio Fiorentino’s reading of Scriabin’s Fourth Piano Sonata...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 7/1997

Gerhard Complete Piano Music

Roberto Gerhard, a brilliant intellect and vivid personality (with whom I was proud to be associated on more than one...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1996

Granados Piano Works

Here is lesser-known Granados, the salon manners of the Bocetos and Cuentos de la juventud a far cry from Goyescas,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2003

Bantock Songs

Here, at the very least, is new repertoire and a possible opening to more. Lewis Foreman’s useful introductory essay tells...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2003

Sibelius: Orchestral Works

Three valuable reissues, two of which are indispensable acquisitions for the serious collector. Beecham's championship of Sibelius began in earnest...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1990

Bach Works for Trumpet

In his booklet-note, Jonathan Freeman-Atwood observes: ‘That none of the pieces here was originally conceived for the trumpet would not...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2006

Mahler - Symphony No 9 / Sir Roger Norrington

Sir Roger Norrington thinks this might be the first time since Bruno Walter’s famous 1938 Vienna Philharmonic recording that a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/2010

New Year's Concert 2001

The CD of this concert was well received by Edward Greenfield in April 2001. The DVD‚ though‚ transports you much...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

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