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Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

The tenth recording of the prepared piano’s pioneering classic enters the British catalogue! What a luxury! The Sonatas and Interludes...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1999

Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier

Other piano recordings of Das wohltemperierte Clavier have come and gone; one remembers Cole, Tureck and Gould with considerably varying...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1986

Beethoven (ed Cooper) Piano Concertos 2 & 4

What are being offered here are Beethoven's Second and Fourth Piano Concertos as we have never quite heard them before....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1994

Petri plays Vivaldi Concertos

Just over ten years ago RCA brought out a version of The Four Seasons with its star Flute-player James Galway,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1987

Prelude to a Kiss

This should be a winner, ‘should’ signifying with some confidence a prediction and, with rather less, a sense of deserving....

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Schubert Piano Works

Though the booklet provides no information about Alexander Lonquich (a new name to me, though I see that he has...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1990

Giordano & Zandonai Operas

There was real excitement surrounding the release of these records in 1970. A few months after they were recorded, in...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/1992

Joseph Schmidt - (A) Song Goes Round The World

I hope not too much of that particular song goes round the world, but certainly Joseph Schmidt’s voice has gone...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2004

Offenbach: Operettas

This Offenbach triple bill presents three different sides of the composer. The charming three-character domestic comedy Pomme d'api is a...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/1989

Dargomizhsky Russalka

With a little nudging, the internal filing system will probably turn up Dargomïzhsky as a footnote to the main entry...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2010

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