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Deane Seachanges - Solo & Chamber Works

Raymond Deane brings a Western European training to what would seem a distinctly Irish sensibility. The musical processes that change...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2000

Mozart: Piano Works

On this showing I would not describe London's Conway Hall as an ideal recording venue for Mozart. Such is its...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1989

Uccellini Sonatas

I very much enjoyed Romanesca’s disc of Biagio Marini’s violin music (Harmonia Mundi, 9/97). This companion recital features violin sonatas,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1999

Holst The Planets; Grainger The Warriors

How do you persuade serious record buyers to invest in yet another recording of The Planets? By telling them that...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/1995

Mélodies Françaises

Debussy’s Fêtes galantes poses quite a challenge: the singer has to switch from the flirtatious mood of ‘Les ingénues’, to...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/2004

Handel: Theatre Music

This is not a record for purists. A number of orchestral items from Handel's theatre music (which rather oddly includes...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Debussy Orchestral works

Save the reservations, such as they are, for later; let me say at the outset that these performances are by...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1984

Hummel Piano Trios, Vol 1

Unlike most of Hummel’s chamber works the piano trios are relatively well covered on disc – not surprising when they...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2006

L.Harrison Music For Guitar And Percussion

This release is a further step forward for Lou Harrison, emerging from relative obscurity in time for his seventy-fifth birthday...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1991

R.Strauss Symphony in F minor,Op 12

Only a short time ago I was welcoming Strauss's early unpublished D minor Symphony into the catalogue (6220 323, 2/86)....

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

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