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John Cage - One and 103

The 90-minute film of One11 was the major project of Cage’s final years and was completed just three months before...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2007

Beethoven Triple Concerto; Piano Trio

At the start, this performance of the Triple Concerto augurs well; the conductor Edmon Colomer gives us the expositional material...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1989

Wispelwey plays Bruch, Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky

In assessing a programme such as this, the first point to consider is the level of technical proficiency on offer,...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Debussy Complete Piano Works

Certain creators and re-creators become synonymous. Beethoven and Schnabel, Chopin and Rubinstein at once spring to mind. Yet in the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1996

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7

I don’t know who to pity more: the budding maestro who hears this Beethoven Fifth before attempting to conduct the...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Fischer Harpsichord Works

Though considered long after his death in 1746 as one of the ''most considerable keyboard players of his time'', we...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1993

(The) Chaliapin Edition, Volume 3 1911-13

With the world in its present state it may not seem appropriate to refer to this as a disaster­area‚ and...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Wolf Morike LIeder

I cannot think of a better advocate of Hugo Wolf than this deeply satisfying recital of the best of the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2003

Powell Symphony "Virginia"

This is an enterprising release of an unknown American symphony. In 1930 music historian John Tasker Howard called John Powell...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2004

Egk/Mozart Wind Music

If you have a particular interest in the more obscure byways of neo-classicism the music of Werner Egk (1901-83) might...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991

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