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Schumann: Piano Works

Though Dalberto has competition in the two bigger works in the Blumenstuck the CD field is all his own. Like...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988

Janácek (5) Operas; Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba

No one who heard young Charlie Mackerras conduct Kát’a Kabanová at Sadler’s Wells in 1951 is likely to have forgotten...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2005

Cancionero - Music for the Spanish Court

I have waited for some time for this recording of early Renaissance Spanish music‚ having heard the Dufay Collective perform...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Fischer-Dieskau - Opera Scenes 1965-1976

This won’t do for the all-or-nothing people, those who complain of bleeding chunks and defend the inviolable integrity of an...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Bach Family: Trio Sonatas

Bach had a large family (as was obviously known to the famous O-level candidate who was inspired to write ''Bach...

Reviewed in issue 7/1984

Grieg/Liszt Piano Works

As a schoolboy, I was offended by the critic F. Bonavia's refusal to call Grieg's Piano Concerto a masterpiece, especially...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1991

Prokofiev Visions Fugitives; Stravinsky Apollo; Concerto in D

Given the ubiquity of Rudolf Barshai’s Shostakovich string quartet adaptations, it’s something of a puzzle that there haven’t been more...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2007

Verdi (La) Traviata

This is important. The bluntness may I hope be excused because for once we have a recording which has...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2006

Rubinstein Piano Works

Anton Rubinstein was an equivocal figure in his lifetime, as he somewhat ruefully recognised, and has remained so. As these...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2003

(A) Noble Entertainment

This is a debut CD from the Parnassian Ensemble, two recorders and continuo who have here homed in on a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2007

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