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Sessions/Martino - Piano Works

Forceful accounts of the Sessions sonatas; the Bergian Second responds well, but the Third needs poignancy as well as power....

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/1999

Rachmaninov Songs, Vol. 3

The final volume of this series of the complete Rachmaninov songs opens with a powerful dramatic outpouring. It is in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1996

Agricola Vocal & Intrumental Works

Alexander Agricola may not be a name on the tip of every record collector's tongue, but that is mainly because,...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/1990

Puccini La Fanciulla del West

Based on the Covent Garden production of ten years ago with Sherrill Milnes brought in as an extra star to...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1987

Gilels plays Saint-Saëns and Rachmaninov

Emil Gilels (1916-85) was a true king of pianists and these Paris and New York based recordings (dating from 1954-6)...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1994

Horowitz Live from Carnegie Hall, 1940-1

Yes, the pundits were right. This is the Rachmaninov Third to end all Rachmaninov Thirds, a performance of such super-human...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1997

Brahms/Mahler Chamber Works

After the G minor and C minor works issued last June, Domus have now completed their cycle of Brahms's piano...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1989

Lehár Eva

Eva was one of the shows that brought the workplace to the operetta stage in the years immediately before the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 13/2006

Falla Lorca Spanish Popular Songs

A most curious process is at work here, which Falla and Lorca, if not actually turning in their graves, are...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1997

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1; Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody

There are many very good Tchaikovsky B flats around and it is easy to sound ungrateful when yet another very...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

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