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WEITZ; JONGEN Organ Works
A quarter of a century has passed since Paul Derrett’s pioneering survey of Guy Weitz’s organ music, recorded in Hereford...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Introduction and Fugue for 2 Pianos
Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Introduction and Fugue for 2 Pianos
Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
SCRIABIN 10 Piano Sonatas. Fantasy
Much of Garrick Ohlsson’s Scriabin sonata cycle is remarkably literal, maybe shockingly so. It’s as if the pianist were determined...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus Op 90. Piano Sonata D959
After launching his Schubert cycle in bold fashion with the final sonata, D960, Barry Douglas continues with two other works...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2017
REGER Complete Organ Works
The statistics are impressive. Seventeen CDs (one of which is given over to a conversation – entirely in German –...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2017
MENDELSSOHN Organ Sonatas
Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonatas, Op 65, date from the last part of his truncated career (1844) and were commissioned by the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017
LISZT Transcriptions of Vocal Works
Even today Liszt remains seriously underestimated as a song composer. Like his adored Schubert, simple lyrics of scant significance could...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2017
David Fray plays Chopin
Remarkably, David Fray had kept Chopin out of his active repertoire for 15 years before recording this disc. It’s perhaps...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017
Olga Jegunova: Poetic Piano Sonatas
Poetry and music make for natural bedfellows and so Olga Jegunova’s generally pleasing programme of ‘Poetic Piano Sonatas’, in this...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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