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Review of Brahms Chamber Works

Brahms Chamber Works

One of the most attractive qualities of this new version of a well-loved quintet is the skill with which the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1997

Review of Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov

Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov

Reviewing Ashkenazy's most recent Rachmaninov Third (with Haitink and the Concertgebouw, Decca 417 239-2DH, 11/86) I made passing mention of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Review of Sting - Songs from the Labyrinth

Sting - Songs from the Labyrinth

A few years back, Sting’s friend the guitarist Dominic Miller gave him a nine-course lute as a gift; Miller also...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 13/2006

Review of Piccinni Roland

Piccinni Roland

Niccolò Piccinni’s Roland is mentioned in every history of opera‚ but few will have heard any of its music. This...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Review of Schubert Piano Sonata D568; Moments musicaux

Schubert Piano Sonata D568; Moments musicaux

This is the penultimate issue in Mitsuko Uchida’s eight-CD series, and thanks to her magical recreation of the E flat...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/2002

Review of Eugen d'Albert - (The) Centaur Pianist

Eugen d'Albert - (The) Centaur Pianist

The description is Bruno Walter’s (‘he appeared to me like a new centaur, half piano, half man’). A prickly, Glasgow-born...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2006

Review of Arnold Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8

Arnold Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8

With this disc Andrew Penny and the Irish National Symphony Orchestra round off their fine cycle of the nine Arnold...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Review of Medieval English Music

Medieval English Music

For many, the most immediately appealing aspect of this record is the stylistic range of the music presented. Fourteenth-century English...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 7/1983

Review of Berg Lulu Suite; 3 Orchestral Pieces

Berg Lulu Suite; 3 Orchestral Pieces

The Lulu suite accounts for nearly half of this well-filled CD, and it is very good indeed. Much of it...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1996

Review of Gluck Orphée et Eurydice

Gluck Orphée et Eurydice

How I wish I could recommend this. The Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau (1916-2006) was a most distinguished Mozartian. His ardent...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2008


 

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