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Bach Cantatas, Vol 13

Normal service resumes in Ton Koopman’s ambitious series of complete Bach cantatas. Volume 13 is the first under the Challenge...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2003

Chopin/Liszt/Szymanowski - Works for Piano

During the 50s and early 60s Maycuzynski (1914-77) became a matinee idol figure whose appearance conformed to everyone’s notion of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2001

Stockhausen Zodiac

Organist Dominik Susteck’s realisation of Tierkreis (“Zodiac”, 1975) is almost certainly provoking quizzical eyebrows back at Stockhausen HQ. Susteck’s excellent...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2011

Gina Cigna (b. 1900)

Gina Cigna self-evidently divided her audiences. The prissy and the precise were and are alarmed by such an all-in singer...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1990

Stanford Chamber Music

The First of Stanford’s three piano trios dates from 1889 and bears a dedication to his good friend, the pianist...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2011

Diana Damrau - Donna (Mozart arias)

“A strong and pleasing voice, in both high and low notes – a combination which one rarely encounters,” ran one...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2009

Birtwistle Choral and Orchestral Works

There are few composers alive today with such distinctive musical personalities as Harrison Birtwistle. That's not enough of course—you could...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1993

Whitlock Organ Works, Vol 3

This is the third volume of a complete Percy Whitlock series, filled out with transcriptions of light orchestral works in...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/2000

Berlioz Orchestral Works

Berlioz's obsessional love-victim is here bullied into ungrateful sanity. Paray will brook neither melancholy lingering nor neurotic mood-swings: his is...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Haydn Cello Concertos

In his characteristically enthusiastic and scholarly sleeve-note for this new recording of Haydn's two cello concertos, H. C. Robbins Landon...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1983

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