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Prokofiev Piano Works

Prokofiev was one of the few 20th-century composers to write extensively for the piano and one of the first to...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2010

Desmarest Grands Motets Lorrains

If Henry Desmarest has not yet joined other French baroque composers among the ranks of the Great Rediscovered (there is...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2000

Lamenti - Baroque Cantatas

Some bright spark in DG’s marketing section, no doubt, was responsible for bestowing the encomium ‘An unusual diva’ on Anne...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1999

On Yoolis Night

''The thread that ties this music together is a striving for something out of the ordinary, a special sound... reserved...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/1993

Leclair Chamber Works

Understandably, the distinguished eighteenth-century theorist Marpurg expressed admiration for Leclair’s sonatas for two violins (without bass), though in declaring them...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1997

Barber Orchestral Works

If the sudden influx of new recordings is anything to go by, Barber's music appears to be enjoying something of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1989

Sibelius Symphony No 2; Karelia Suite

Few premieres prove to be truly national events but that of Sibelius’s Second Symphony in 1902, given amid burgeoning Finnish...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2011

Benatzky Im Weissen Rossl

Even with performers chosen on the back of appearances in the Austrian version of Strictly Come Dancing, there’s a sense...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/2009

Schubert Arpeggione Sonata; Sonatina; Lieder Transcriptions

Cellists love Schubert for the wonderful things he gives them in the String Quintet, but he wrote nothing for solo...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2005

Stravinsky The Rake's Progress

Although this is not a live recording it was made after a series of staged performances in Japan in 1995...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1997

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