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Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV988

The roll call of Goldberg's on disc amounts almost to one first-class version per variation. I cannot think that there’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2000

Bach to Cuba

This disc begins with the first movements of Bach’s Third and Fifth Brandenburg Concertos (the latter abbreviated), interpreted very conventionally...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2007

Norton Chu Chin Chow

EMI Angel have followed the pattern of their recent release of The Arcadians (3/94) by reissuing an HMV recording of...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/1994

Borodin Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3

This was originally a two-record set that included the Second Symphony and In Central Asia. It is now very effectively...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1985

Fontana Piano Works, Vol 1

If the name is unfamiliar, then you can’t have been paying close enough attention to your Chopin studies. Julian Fontana...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2008

Debussy (La) Mer; Jeux; Prélude à l'après-midi

This Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune is a reading which distils an almost indecently sultry languor and is marked by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2011

Chanticleer - Our journey

This bold, eclectic, well-planned programme, moving from plainsong to spiritual with contrasting groups of song in between, is typical of...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 2/2003

Mercadante - Les soirées italiennes

‘Exception must always be made for Mercadante,’ wrote Liszt in the course of a bleak survey of contemporary Italian opera....

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

R. Strauss Orchestral Works

I thought at first that we might have a winner here. The opening paragraph of the main work is beautifully...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Gottschalk Piano Music, Volume 3

When I reviewed Vol. 2 of Martin’s Gottschalk set (10/94), I ended by suggesting a Vol. 3. Seldom has a...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1997

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