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Schubert Impromptus; Moments Musicaux; Allegretto

French pianist David Fray, at 28 years old already acclaimed for an intensive and dazzling career, now makes a Schubert...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2009

Frank Martin Orchestral Works

No quarrels with these performances, which are lively and expert enough even if the strings are a little wanting in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1994

Bach Wohltemperirite Klavier

Here are two recent issues of Book 1 of Bach's 48 or, more properly Das Wohltemperierte Clavier. Recently issued, certainly,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1990

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5

The Emperor is the only Beethoven piano concerto not to have been premiered by Beethoven himself. By 1811 his deafness...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2008

Schumann: Cello Works

Most versions of the Cello Concerto are coupled with other orchestral pieces: Mischa Maisky's with a rather mannered account of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1988

Thow Chamber Works

Although everyone knows the Karelia Suite and the Overture, which Sibelius published separately as his Op. 10, no one will...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1998

Ebe Stignani (1903-1974)

When I first heard Norma at Covent Garden in 1952, I have to confess (if confession it be) that it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1991

Stravinsky (Le) Sacre du Printemps (A Silent Film to the Music of Stravinsky)

Oedipus Rex was conceived as an opera without drama or movement, in which the narrator gives the game away before...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2005

Haydn Symphonies

The gaps in the list of Haydn symphonies available on CD are gradually being filled, and this highly enjoyable new...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1989

BYRD Infelix ego ('Byrd Edition, Vol 13')

Hyperion has done Byrd proud: to Davitt Moroney’s award-winning traversal of the complete keyboard music we can now add 13...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2010

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