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Liszt A Faust Symphony

‘For me, Fischer’s Faust Symphony is a clear front runner – more spontaneous than Rattle’s, more agile than Bernstein’s and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2000

Salonen conducts Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Piano Concerto runs for more than half an hour, barely pausing for breath. The turbulence and energy of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2009

Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin

Just over two years ago I reviewed enthusiastically a wonderfully spontaneous-sounding recording of Schumann by this talented, seemingly little-known young...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2003

Chopin Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3

This is a disc that takes you by stealth. Not simply because it opens almost unassumingly, with a finely wrought...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2009

Stravinsky (3) Movements from Petrouchka; Tchaikovsky (The) Seasons

Denis Matsuev (b1975, Irkutsk, Siberia) won the 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition. His brief ‘Tribute to Horowitz’ disc (2003) made a strong...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2006

Bingham Choral Music

To say Judith Bingham’s discography is meagre would be an understatement. Hitherto, the only works available have been a Mass...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2007

Handel Serse

Hearing a Handel opera given the full treatment - an international, starry cast, a full modern orchestra, a production in...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000

Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne

Perhaps this is what you have been looking for too. For a long time I remained fond of these songs...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

G.B. & G. Sammartini Sonatas

A few years ago French Harmonia Mundi issued an attractive disc of concertos sinfonias and a quintet by the Sammartini...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1993

Damase Piano Works

Longer ago than I care to remember, a music teacher played me some piano music by Jean-Michel Damase and then...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 6/2004

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