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Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

As in other undertakings of more recent times, again here the late Jorge Bolet (in his mid-seventies when making this...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1990

Kathleen Battle & Jean-Pierre Rampal in Concert

'With flute obbligato': it used to be a regular feature of concerts and recordings by the great madames of old....

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Seixas Harpsichord Sonatas

If you liked the Seixas Concerto in A (Hungaroton/Conifer (CD) HCD12392, 11/87), you'll love these sonatas. Playing on one of...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Brian Violin Concerto; Symphony No 18

The late Robert Simpson once referred to Havergal Brian as the ‘Original Awkward Cuss raised to the level of genius’....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2005

Liszt Piano Works

For me one of the great boons of Liszt's music is that there always seems to be more of it;...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1990

Orchestral Works

With bulky, dry sound and fairly intense delivery, the Tchaikovsky sounds more like a string symphony than a string serenade:...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Bruce Ford sings Operetta

Chandos and the Peter Moores Foundation have made an excellent job of incorporating an operetta volume into their Opera in...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/2003

Prokofiev/Scriabin Piano Works

This is special—very special. Demidenko clearly has an extraordinary affinity and affection for the music of Scriabin and this is...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1991

Stockhausen Michael's Farewell

Michael’s Farewell is the music heard after the end of Stockhausen’s first Licht opera, Donnerstag (1980), when, on the occasion...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2003

Grechaninov String Quartets

Grechaninov's songs and liturgical music have earned him a minor place in the repertory; his orchestral music has more or...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1994

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