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The booklet with this first disc in the Naxos cycle of Widor organ symphonies informs us that the restored 1928...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2020
The sonatas of John White – 180 and counting – rank among the largest and most varied corpuses of piano...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2020
The salon and pedagogical miniatures of the 19th-century guitarist-composers Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Dionisio Aguado, Matteo Carcassi et al sound...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2020
Michelle Assay’s harsh yet accurate observations concerning Llŷr Williams’s initial Schubert volumes (2/20) sometimes mirror my mixed responses to the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
In my version of Utopia, all professional pianists would start their day by playing through at least one of Schubert’s...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2020
As far as I know, this is only the third recording of Rubinstein’s E minor Sonata and the second of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2020
Given that Jean-Philippe Collard revels in music containing great harmonic subtlety (Fauré) and textual intricacy (Rachmaninov), it’s not surprising how...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
What happened to the great Russian composer-pianist tradition in the decades after the death of Scriabin and the emigration of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020
After reviewing Vikingur Ólafsson’s disc of Bach (11/18) I was eager to hear what he’d do next and this certainly...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2020
Muzio Clementi’s 250th birthday was celebrated in 2002 with scholarly conferences in Perugia and Rome. Two years earlier, Ut Orpheus,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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