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Poets from the East

Here is an attractive, undemanding assemblage of piano miniatures, very loosely tied together by the theme of its title. The...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2009

Bax Chamber Music, Volume 2

The good news is that, while we are waiting for the remaining three instalments in David Lloyd-Jones’s Bax symphony cycle,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2000

Mayerl Piano Music, Vol.3

There is no pianist better equipped to carry the Billy Mayerl revival forward than Eric Parkin—unless it is Mayerl himself,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1993

Beethoven & Mozart Symphonies

Both the Beethoven recordings detailed above were made by small orchestras using period instruments, and there are superficial similarities in...

Reviewed in issue 2/1986

Schoenberg/Schubert Works for Chamber Orchestra

Given the wrong sort of performance, Verklarte Nacht can drag on interminably – but not here. Iona Brown’s reading with...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Mendelssohn Piano Trios

Many hard things have been written by musicologists in recent years about Mendelssohn's two piano trios. Yonty Solomon, insert-note-writer as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1992

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4

Bruno-Leonardo Gelber has many of the qualifications for a fine Beethoven pianist; the trouble is, he is too keen to...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Delius Orchestral Works

Small orchestras must be glad that Delius provided them with a number of suitable pieces within their range, thus making...

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

Grieg & Mendelssohn Piano Concertos

Cecile Ousset is an arrestingly ebullient artist, masculine in tonal command, who leaves her own distinctive stamp on everything she...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1987

Jurinac and Ludwig sing German Lieder

Thanks to the BBC and its radio recordings, we have these valuable supplements to the discographies of two favourite singers....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2003

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