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Liszt Piano Sonata; Mephisto Walz No 1

From the first bars of the Sonata to the coruscating coda of the First Mephisto Waltz, you know you are...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2008

Haydn/Kraft Cello Concertos

Anner Bylsma and Christophe Coin are two of the most prominent cellists on the early-music scene. Both have had considerable...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Purcell Dido and Aeneas

The Scholars Baroque Ensemble, who have already recorded an atmospheric if not consistently beguiling Fairy Queen (7/94), work all hands...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1997

Spohr String Quintet No 7

Though it’s difficult to imagine Spohr’s music ever regaining the popularity and high prestige it enjoyed during his lifetime, recordings...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2006

Earl Wild plays Chopin, Fauré & Liszt

These performances date from 1962 and 1967 and are part of Chesky's ongoing series of Earl Wild's early recordings. Not...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1994

Liszt/Beethoven Piano Works

Even at full-price and without coupling this version of the Liszt concertos might well have been a personal first choice....

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Casals The Crib (oratorio)

Pablo Casals set great store by his oratorio El pessebre (‘The Crib’). Written in the early years of his exile...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/2000

El canto espiritual judeoespañol

This is one of the most fascinating discs I have heard in recent months. It represents a meeting of cultures...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/1998

Franchomme Cello Virtuoso

If you’re interested in the byways of romantic music or in the solo cello repertoire, it is well worth investigating...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/1997

Francisco Araiza sings Operatic Arias

Araiza's is probably the name that occurs most readily when we speculate at present about the inheritance of tenors in...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

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