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Pärt Triodion

Meurig Bowen’s notes observe that choral pieces composed a decade ago (and featured by Polyphony on an earlier Hyperion release,...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 11/2003

Brahms and Liszt Piano works

One may well think of Michael Ponti as the high priest of the unknown piano concerto, but he has been...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 1/1987

Bruch Concertos for Violin and Orchestra Nos. 1 and 3

It is surprising that this coupling of the First and Third Concertos of Bruch is so rare‚ with no rival...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Vivaldi Arie per basso

This is Volume 30 in this important Vivaldi Edition, drawing on manuscripts housed in the National University Library of Turin....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2006

Wagner Tristan und Isolde

Those of us who have worn out our original HMV pressings of the famous Furtwangler recording of Tristan und Isolde...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1986

Kancheli In l' istesso tempo

Chamber music is relatively sparsely represented in Kancheli’s output and it is hard to imagine his characteristic long, meditative structures...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2005

Veracini Overtures & Sonatas

Francesco Maria Veracini continues to make regular entrances into the recording catalogue without ever seeming to threaten the dominance of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2010

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 14, 15 and 21

A “dream world” is how Arthur Hutchings described the Andante of K467. Christian Zacharias begs to differ, the time signature...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2011

Messiaen & Xenakis: Piano Works

Thirty-six minutes? Yes, but the quantity of notes Yuji Takahashi has to negotiate in that time is colossal, and anyway...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Mozart Edition, Vol.39

During his early years in Vienna, Mozart made two abortive attempts at opera buffa. Both survive merely as fragments, and...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1992

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