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William Kapell - Piano Recital

William Kapell had a blazing talent. Alas‚ his genius shone all too briefly and after dazzling audiences‚ chiefly in his...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Monteverdi: Madrigals

Three years have elapsed since this recording first appeared, and several of the works it contains have now become available...

Reviewed in issue 6/1986

M.A.Charpentier Messe pour le Port Royal

These are intimate settings of mainly liturgical texts celebrating the Virgin Mary. The programme consists of 18 petits motets, that...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1999

Guatemala Vol. 3 - Martínez-Sobral

Martinez-Sobral (1879-1946) was isolated from 20th-century trends and his music is an amalgam of most things stylistic from Haydn to...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/2000

Rossini Ermione

Rossini’s Ermione is the 19th century’s finest operatic treatment of a subject drawn from Greek tragedy. Not until the appearance...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2010

Gergiev conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

A workaholic with a famously implausible schedule, Gergiev in concert can be less rewarding than Gergiev in the opera house....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2002

Finzi; Howells; Patterson Works for Oboe and Piano

This is a most interesting and rewarding recital devoted to English pieces for oboe and piano that deserve to be...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1993

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4; Mozart Piano Concerto No 23

Hess is her own rival in the Beethoven Concerto; but she doesn’t equal her 1952 performance, also with Boult, that...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2003

Bach English Suites

It was about a decade ago that Gustav Leonhardt recorded Bach's six English Suites for Philips; they were reissued a...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1985

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5

Nowadays when seemingly every live concert and opera production anywhere is filmed from front of house using three or four...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2004

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