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Howells Piano Concertos 1 & 2

An astonishing revelation, especially to anyone who still thinks of Herbert Howells as a nostalgic English rhapsodist, more at home...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/2001

Cage Works for Prepared Piano

A useful collection by another German pianist of all Cage’s prepared piano music apart from the classic Sonatas and Interludes...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/1999

Couperin (Les) Nations, Vol 2

The Purcell Quartet have not rushed to follow up their first volume of Couperin’s Les nations (5/03), and have released...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2007

Verdi Rigoletto (abridged)

This is a historic recording with a difference. It offers generous excerpts from a live recording made in Cape Town...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: /2000

Schnittke/Shostakovich/Vasks Works for String Orchestra

In this stimulating and in some ways disquieting programme, each work stems from very personal ground-springs and shares one sombre...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Wings in the Night

If von Otter’s and Forsberg’s intention in compiling this recital was to provide an introduction to the riches of Swedish...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1996

Brahms Violin Concerto

A CD offering less than 40 minutes of music these days is very short measure, but Mullova's is a commanding...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1994

Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Raymond Cohen and Anthya Rael are a husband-and-wife team who have performed as a duo for some four decades—and, incidentally,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1992

Martinu; Sydor; Yano Oboe Concertos

‘An English Renaissance’ is a tribute to the oboist Leon Goossens who inspired three of the works on this disc....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2005

Conchita Supervia Songbook

Pearl has served this adorable artist uncommonly well. The ‘Songbook’ disc is a kind of appendage, filling in important gaps...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2003

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