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Cape Complete Piano Music, Volume 2

I raved about the first volume in this series which contained all Cage’s music for prepared piano performed to the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/1998

Massenet Werther

What is to become of French opera if the French themselves take so little interest in it? The list of...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 10/1999

Felicity Lott - s'amuse...'auf Deutsch'

In the days of 78s‚ a singer might record a couple of light songs‚ and the disc would achieve collectors’...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Prokofiev - Piano Works and Transcriptions

Schubert and Schoenberg are the chalk and the cheese at either end of Viennese romanticism. Schoenberg was well aware of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2000

Josquin Des Prez Missa Fortuna Desperata

Given Josquin’s stature it is barely credible that a couple of his Masses still await representation on CD. I can...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Britten Piano Concerto; Diversions

Commissioned as a 24-year-old to compose and perform a piano concerto for the 1938 Proms, Britten played safe. None of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2008

Bush, A Works for Violin & Piano

This an attractive and stimulating follow-up to Meridian’s first collection of Alan Bush’s chamber music (11/02), a medium in which...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2005

Mozart Piano Concertos 17 & 21

The three new CDs sound well. The DG and the Philips offer exceptional ranges of orchestral colour and perhaps on...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/1985

Foerster Orchestral Suites

A man of wide artistic tastes and talents, Foerster was more than once captivated by the idea of setting dramatic...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1993

Schubert Piano Trio 1

The Israel players launch into the B flat Trio in splendidly heroic style, and the spacious acoustic seems to suit...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

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