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Fretwork - Birds On Fire

The title of this recording is a quotation from Aaron Appelfeld’s 1939 novel Badenheim. The subtitle, “Jewish Music for Viols”,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 9/2008

Beethoven Piano Works

This sets new standards for protractedness in Beethoven piano playing. I am open to correction, but I should think 38'07''...

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

Myaskovsky Complete Symphonies, Vol 11

Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), the quiet man of Russian-Soviet music, is back. And all credit to Alto for making available these...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2007

Beethoven Piano Variations

Jando's Beethoven sonata cycle for Naxos has already received general critical acclaim. It was with relatively high expectations, therefore, that...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

MacMillan (The) Birds of Rhiannon; Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis

Last time I bothered to monitor its trajectory‚ the authorised critical pendulum indicated that MacMillan had strayed too deeply into...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Marek Piano Works, Vol 2

Although there's nothing here to rival the scintillating brilliance of the Op. 8 Triptyque (the highlight of the first volume...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2000

Dvorák Symphony 8; Scherzo capriccioso

Already when reviewing the LP I limited myself to CD comparisons, but the CD is now even more spectacular. In...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1986

Bach St Mark Passion

If we are to believe Bach’s obituary notice, the composer wrote as many as five settings of the Passion story....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1999

Lehár Giuditta

Giuditta was Lehar’s last stage work and the peak of his compositional development. Written for the Vienna State Opera, it...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1997

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 28 & 29, 'Hammerklavier'

Gerhard Oppitz concludes his Beethoven cycle on top form. So organically does he interweave the lyricism and rolling urgency of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2008

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