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Ravel & Saint-Saëns Piano Trios

Listening to Debussy's Piano Trio a year ago played by the Parnassus Trio on Dabringhaus und Grimm/Harmonia Mundi, I regretted...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1989

Appear & Inspire-Choral Works

The stimulus for this programme of French and American music is the annual gathering in the South of France of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/1997

Vaughan Williams Songs

Ian Partridge’s treasurable performances of On Wenlock Edge and the Ten Blake Songs have been on CD before (9/88), partnered...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1996

Ockeghem Requiem

Distinctive as always, Marcel Peres brings his own colour to what will in any case always remain the strangest piece...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1994

Walton & Stravinsky: Vocal Works

It was high time that Walton's Facade entertainment was represented in the CD catalogue and musically at least this completely...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

Piston Symphonies 5, 7 & 8

Walter Piston composed his Fifth Symphony in 1954, at the age of 60, to a formula found in the two...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1989

(The) Sixteen - Ikon

There’s an Eastern Orthodox cast to much of this programme (nearer the surface on some pieces than others) with a...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 5/2006

Wagner (Die) Walküre

Hans Hotter’s Wotan dominates this utterly absorbing and exciting account of Walküre, the second instalment of the rediscovered Keilberth Ring...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2006

Brahms Complete Songs Vol 1

In years to come, the Graham Johnson song editions on record will be valued like the Arden Shakespeare and other...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2010

Barbirolli conducts Martinu and Tchaikovsky

Writing to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky famously identified the opening brass theme of what she liked to call...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2011

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