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Satie Piano Works

Claire Chevallier plays this Erik Satie recital on a seven-octave 1905 Érard piano. “Satie bathed in a rich sound world,...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2009

Bach Violin Concertos

At first I did not think I was going to get on with Masaaki Suzuki’s recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1998

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream

In September I welcomed Previn's CD of A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music (which is absolutely complete) on EMI, rating...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987

Brahms String Quartet 3; Schumann Piano Quintet

Generally reliable music-making that smacks of careful preparation but lacks excitement. Tempos tend to the slow side (there is nothing...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/1998

Brahms Serenades 1 & 2

Bertini manages to combine an eager, joyful approach to these two scores with a feeling of warmth and mellowness. In...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

Sullivan HMS Pinafore

Though Pearl presents this as the first CD transfer of this 1949 recording, it has already been made available by...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2001

The Elgar Edition, Vol. 3

It was not my intention to listen through this set at one sitting, but like the reader who couldn't put...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Koechlin Works for Horn & Piano

Koechlin was a pupil of Faure and a teacher of Poulenc and Milhaud, helped Ravel and Schmitt to found the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1990

Hinton String Quintet

Every so often a work appears that for sheer size breaks its mould: Beethoven’s Eroica, Mahler’s Third Symphony, Brian’s Gothic,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2003

Kostitsyn American Requiem

Feelings will run high on this one. Evgeni Kostitsyn’s 9/11 piece layers the Latin Requiem texts with proclamations by George...

Reviewed by Arved Ashby in issue: 13/2003

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