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Camilleri Piano Concertos

Charles Camilleri is a Maltese composer now in his early sixties. These three concertos span the greater part of his...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1994

Tippett King Priam

King Priam was a great shock when it was first performed in 1962. In place of the ecstatic lyrical warmth...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1996

Field Complete Piano Concertos

“Born in Ireland in 1782”, reads John Field’s headstone, “Dead in Moscow in 1837.” There is little of Moscow in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2010

Al Ayre Espanol - Barroco Español, Vol 4

This is the fifth recording in the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi series dedicated to Spanish baroque music by Al Ayre Espanol,...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 13/1999

Thalberg Grand Concerto

We have had some interesting and valuable additions to the piano repertoire via Naxos’s Romantic Piano Concerto series, but Sigismond...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 7/2000

Pierre de Manchicourt Sacred Choral Works

Paul van Nevel has done it again. Whether it is Gombert (Sony, 4/93) or Brumel (5/91), Gallus or Pipelare (10/96),...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Bizet Te Deum

This is a disc guaranteed to delight anyone who has ever responded to the youthful sparkle of Bizet’s Symphony in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2011

Beethoven Symphony No 3; Schubert Symphony No 8

Julian Steckel, winner of many prizes, has studied under Heinrich Schiff, among others, and has also been principal cellist of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2011

Peter Anders - Arias and Songs

At Beecham’s famous 1951 Covent Garden Meistersinger, Anders was the unforgettable Walther: at least after all these years I haven’t...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2003

Sibelius Orchestral Works

So far no one has coupled Pelleas and Swanwhite together; in fact there is at present only one alternative account...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1989

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