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GRIEG Piano Works

This captivating disc sandwiches a selection of the more popular Lyric Pieces and four of the Slåtter between the composer’s...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2014

Miloš: Aranjuez

The Montenegro-born classical guitarist Milo≈ Karadaglić is in many ways the ideal interpreter of Rodrigo’s brand of Spanish musical nationalism....

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2014

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5 (Complete)

You could say, with some justification, that many pianists who excel in Haydn also excel in Prokofiev, where similar qualities...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2014

(The) Mauricio Kagel Edition

Beethoven shows up at Bonn Station in 1970 to survey how the culture industry is marking his bicentenary. That delicious...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 3/2007

Schoenberg/Bartók/Hindemith Orchestral Works

This is a historic issue of modern classics which one might expect Barenboim to record again in Chicago. It dates...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1994

Handel Messiah Arias

This selection of arias and choruses is an unashamed vehicle for the voice of Dame Kiri; and Handel, fluttery figuration...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1986

Marcello Estro-poetico armonico

Of the Venetian Marcello brothers, Benedetto is the elder and the more original. He came from the sort of ‘nobile...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2000

Serenade - Davis Daniels

There seems to be only one actual serenade here (Gounod's), and that sounds more like a lullaby, which it partly...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2000

Tchaikovsky Complete Symphonies, etc

If you crave the interpretative freedoms of yesteryear, lend an ear to Temirkanov's Tchaikovsky. At times, I wondered whether this...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1994

Zodiac - Capilla Flamenca

For their latest offering, Capilla Flamenca place some of the Ars subtilior’s most famous pieces (those by Ciconia, Cordier and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2005

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