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Bortkiewicz; Rachmaninov Works for Violin and Piano

Sergey Bortkiewicz is one of the lesser known of the many émigrés who escaped from Bolshevik Russia. In his case...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/0

Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia - highlights

In the old days, composers used to make lots of money by transcribing operatic numbers into all manner of musical...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1990

Paul Derenne - Rare French Songs

The title of this CD is something of an understatement: rare songs. Even the names of some of the composers...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1999

Puccini Manon Lescaut

Bernard Shaw hailed Puccini as the most likely successor to Verdi after just one hearing of Manon Lescaut. Subsequent British...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0

Lumsdaine, D - White Dawn

As a way of making what may or may not be music, placing microphones into urban or rural environments and...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2011

Beethoven String Quartets, Vol. 5

This is billed as Vol. 5 of a complete cycle of Beethoven’s quartets, and leaves me keen to hear further...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1997

Smetana Complete Orchestral Works

This set of Smetana’s orchestral works is the best possible antidote to an overdose of 19th-century angst. For here, despite...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2008

Montsalvatge Complete Works for Piano

Although the first of these two discs is titled ‘Complete Works for Piano’, the first thing one notices from the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2003

John Cage at Summerstage

This is a memento of an extraordinary occasion – John Cage’s last concert appearance on July 23rd, 1992, in the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2000

Schütz Motets

These two releases (both of which present a number of works not otherwise in the catalogue) make a useful complementary...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1992

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